6
CONFIDENTIAL
26-Jan-04
© 2002 Procket Networks, Inc. All rights reserved.
Glossary of Terms: the basics
•
Source = source of multicast stream
•
Multicast stream = IP packet with multicast address as IP
destination address. a.k.a. multicast group.
•
s,g (unicast source, group) reference
•
UDP packets (TTL > 1 for routed nets)
•
Receiver
= receiver (s) of multicast stream
IP dest
=
224.10.8.5
Enet dest = 01-00-5E-0A-08-05
IP source = IP unicast
Enet source = mac addr
source
Multicast stream
receivers
Video Server