IP multicasting, based on the IGMP protocol, is designed to make video streaming as efficient as possible. The following paper describes IP multicasting based on IGMP. IGMP (Internet Group Management ...

Group membership information is propagated in the network from the hosts towards to the routers that are directly attached to the sources in a bottom-up approach with the help of Internet group ...

If your business network uses a Linksys switch, the Internet Group Management Protocol snooping feature may be enabled. By default, the switch automatically forwards all IP multicast traffic to ...

attempting to make an outward conenction to 224.0.0.251 via IGMP. What I do is I always block the request but it seems there's always a new app once in every few days that will want to make this ...