8.5. Summary
You and I have discussed and fought through lots of topics in this chapter. You learned about the different ways that traffic can be transmitted on a network, and the benefits and drawbacks of each. Then I took you through the multicast addressing range. You saw how the whole range of addresses is broken up into smaller groups that are used for specific types of transmissions. Then, just as important was the translation of the multicast IP address to the multicast MAC address. During that process, you saw that there was a little problem in determining the IP address from the MAC.
After the addressing section, came the breakdown of the multicast protocols that are used across the network. We started out with IGMP, going through each ...
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