by Maher Haddad | Jun 8, 2022 | Multicast v6
IGMP (Internet Group Management Protocol) version 1 is the 1st version used in IGMP which has a function to allow hosts announcing to the router that they want multicast traffic from a specific group such as 239.1.2.3. IGMP version 1 is a very simple protocol and it...
by Maher Haddad | Jun 8, 2022 | MikroTik v6, Multicast v6
As you can see, I have a MikroTik router and my PC is connected to it on port Ether1. There is no any configuration on the router (I have reset it to default). Let’s see what packages are available on the router. As you can see, the multicast package is not listed...
by Maher Haddad | Jun 8, 2022 | MikroTik v6, Multicast v6
We spoke about Layer3 addressing on multicast, what about the Layer2 which is the MAC address? Do we have special MAC addresses on multicast? The answer is yes. IANA has allocated also for Layer2 multicast addressing a range. The range start from 01:00:5E:00:00:00...
by Maher Haddad | Jun 8, 2022 | MikroTik v6, Multicast v6
As explained in the chapter 1, IANA has reserved Class D range for multicast. The difference between the multicast and unicast address, is that unicast IP addresses represent a single network device while multicast represent a group of network devices or receivers....
by Maher Haddad | Jun 8, 2022 | MikroTik v6, Multicast v6
We now agreed that Multicast is the best option when it comes to video streaming and it has a lot of advantages compared to the Unicast and Broadcast streaming. Now, it is important to know that Multicast doesn’t work “out of box” like Unicast for example. So, there...
by Maher Haddad | Jun 6, 2022 | Multicast v6
Multicast is a topic that was never been clear when it comes to applying it on MikroTik products. Many of my students have written me asking to do a course speaking about Multicast because they want to implement it in their network and they don’t know from where to...
