IP multicast
General multicast information
- Introduction to IP multicast
- This is a brief introduction to multicast, mainly aimed at people
that already know basic IP. It shows how the different multicast
technologies fit together, and has references to the different
specifications.
- Multicast glossary
- Contains short explanations of the most common multicast terms
- IPv4-IPv6 multicast
gateway
- This describes a gateway between IPv4 and IPv6 multicast developed at
UNINETT, and is one of the solutions described in the document above.
Multicast in UNINETT
UNINETT offers IPv4 multicast to all member institutions, and also has
connectivity to other multicast networks. Experiments with IPv6
multicast are also taking place. UNINETT and some members are
connected to the
M6Bone.
Below are some of the UNINETT
activities and services. For a description of activities in 2003
in Norwegian, see
here.
-
Electronic streaming guide
- A web interface for finding available unicast and multicast content.
Sessions can be entered via the web interface, but it also contains
multicast sessions announced with SAP
- Multicast measurements
- It shows e.g. number of active senders (MCActSender),
number of groups (MCGrpCount), and number of participants (both senders
and receivers (MCTotPart).
- IPv6 multicast beacon
- The beacon allows us to monitor multicast connectivity
- sapd
- We've developed a very minimal tool to do SAP announcements.
source code
available.
- The M6Bone: International Experiments with IPv6 Multicast
- UNINETT is involved in M6Bone. This is a presentation about the M6Bone, and activities.
External documents
- IPv6 Intra-domain Multicast Service
- A 6NET document about multicast and how it's deployed in 6NET. This can
be useful to other deploying multicast.
- IPv6 multicast address allocation study
- This is about the different types of IPv6 multicast addresses available,
and how to choose which to use.
- IPv4/IPv6 Multicast Interoperability
- This describes different types of solutions to get some sort of multicast
connectivity between IPv4-only and IPv6-only hosts.
-
Multicast references at SWITCH
- List of books and IETF documents on everything related to multicast
-
GÉANT Multicast
- About multicast in GÉANT, but also many useful pointers
- IP Multicast Technology Overview
- A nice overview of IP multicast, but IPv4 only
-
A Brief History of Internet Multicast
- The history of multicast in the Internet in the past millennium