Abstract: Source-Specific Multicast (SSM) is a more recent form of IP Multicast compared to the traditional Any Source Multicast (ASM) model. In making a fundamental assumption that there is only a ...

Abstract: Many new Internet applications require data transmission from a sender to multiple receivers. Unfortunately, the IP multicast technology used today suffers from scalability problems, ...

Anycast addressing in IPv6 allows multiple servers to share the same IPv6 address. When a client sends a packet to this anycast address, the network infrastructure routes the packet to the nearest ...

IPv6 Multicast is a BGP address family (AFI 2, SAFI 2) that enables BGP to carry multicast routing information for IPv6 networks. It provides Reverse Path Forwarding (RPF) information for IPv6 ...

Till recently, we used the IPv4 version, which provided us with a 32-bit address. But these available addresses will be exhausted soon. The newer version of IP, is the IPv6, on the other hand, offers ...

During the historic growth of the Internet in the 1990s - when venture capitalists funded anything with a .com at the end of the name and consumers rushed to experience a new center of knowledge - it ...

The time is ripe for your business to migrate to IPv6, but you need to keep your new connections safe. Internet Protocol version six (IPv6) is the way that internet communication will be handled for ...

Like it or lump it, you're going to need to add IPv6 to your network. Here's how to start. Some people still think they don’t need to worry about the growing shortage of Internet IPv4 addresses and ...

Although IPv6 adoption seems to be moving at a snail’s pace, there’s no outrunning it. Brien Posey demystifies some of the addressing issues many admins are still trying to figure out. [Editor’s note: ...