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Multicast IP Address Ranges Explained

Multicast IP addresses differ from unicast addresses in that they represent a group of receivers rather than a single device. The IANA has reserved the class D range (224.0.0.0 to 239.255.255.255) for multicast, with specific addresses allocated for network protocols, such as 224.0.0.1 for all hosts and 224.0.0.2 for all multicast routers. Certain addresses within the 224.0.0.0 to 224.0.0.255 range are reserved and not forwarded by routers between subnets.

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Multicast IP Address Ranges Explained

Multicast IP addresses differ from unicast addresses in that they represent a group of receivers rather than a single device. The IANA has reserved the class D range (224.0.0.0 to 239.255.255.255) for multicast, with specific addresses allocated for network protocols, such as 224.0.0.1 for all hosts and 224.0.0.2 for all multicast routers. Certain addresses within the 224.0.0.0 to 224.0.0.255 range are reserved and not forwarded by routers between subnets.

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Multicast IP Addresses
Overview
One of the differences between unicast and multicast IP addresses is
that unicast IP addresses represent a single network device while
multicast IP addresses represent a group of receives. IANA has
reserved the class D range to use for multicast. The first 4 bits in the
first octet are 1110 in binary, meaning we have the [Link] through
[Link] range for IP multicast addresses.

Some of the addresses are reserved, however, and we can’t use them
for our own applications.

The [Link] – [Link] range has been reserved by IANA to use for
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network protocols. All multicast IP packets in this range are not


forwarded by routers between subnets. Let me give you an overview
of reserved link-local multicast addresses. I’m sure you recognize some
of the protocols:

Address Usage

[Link] 1/5
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[Link] All Hosts


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[Link] All Multicast
Routers

[Link] Unassigned

[Link] DVMRP Routers

[Link] OSPF Routers

[Link] OSPF DR/BDR


Router

[Link] ST Routers

[Link] ST Hosts

[Link] RIPv2 Routers

[Link] EIGRP Routers

[Link] Mobile Agents

[Link] DHCP Server / Relay

[Link] All PIM Routers

[Link] RSVP Encapsulation

[Link] All CBT Routers

[Link] Designated SBM


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[Link] All SBMS

[Link] VRRP

[Link] – 255 Unassigned

[Link] 2/5

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