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.