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It is not completely clear if the Ethernet multicast addresses mentioned in the article are exclusively used in combination with IP Multicast protocols rather than any alternate multicast protocols.
If this is the case I would suggest this article to link directly to the protocol it applies to, as in:
--SymlynX 17:33, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
In the article, it says, "It ranges from 224.0.0.0 to 239.255.255.255, or, equivalently, 224.0.0.0/4" - shouldn't this last part read "224/4"? Hex equivalents would be E0.00.00.00 to EF.FF.FF.FF. Maybe the article should mention and define the two different styles of writing the IP ranges? Cbdorsett 07:37, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
802.11 Ngamboithang (talk) 22:18, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
I would like to suggest that the Ethernet section at the bottom is moved to before the IPv4 and IPv6 section. This makes the order of the sections consistent with the layer order. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.110.39.122 (talk) 07:53, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
A new contribution warns that IGMP snooping does not work with certain ranges of multicast addresses. The source provided look reliable but is dated 1992-2004 so may not reflect the current state of things. ~Kvng (talk) 15:26, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
This doesn't explain how multicast addresses work. Sure, there are certain ones that mean certain things, but how do you use them? What do you use them for? I want to send a packet to multiple receivers, so we pre-arrange that I will send to some multicast address, and then the receivers arrange to receive on that multicast address somehow? Is that it? How is that accomplished?
Hotpine (talk) 21:24, 29 April 2023 (UTC)