CH 5 Multicast MAC Address
The multicast MAC address associated with an IPv4 multicast address is a special value that begins with?
01-00-5E in hexadecimal.
The range of IPv6 multicast addresses begin with FF00::/8.
FF00::/8. Because multicast addresses represent a group of addresses (sometimes called a host group), they can only be used as the destination of a packet.
The range of IPv4 multicast addresses is ?
is 224.0.0.0 to 239.255.255.255.
The multicast IP address requires a corresponding what?
multicast MAC address to actually deliver frames on a local network.
Multicast addresses allow a source device to send a what?
packet to a group of devices. Devices that belong to a multicast group are assigned a multicast group IP address.
The remaining portion of the multicast MAC address is created by converting what ?
the lower 23 bits of the IP multicast group address into 6 hexadecimal characters. For an IPv6 address, the multicast MAC address begins with 33-33.
The source will always be a ________.
unicast address.