Talk:Multicast address
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[edit] Include non IANA registered 'well known' addresses?
I was thinking of editing the multicast address table to include CARP in the description of 224.0.0.18. I would consider this to be a fairly well known and often encountered protocol.
I propose changing the description of the table to reflect that it contains IANA and non-IANA registered addresses. The text describing link to the IANA Internet Multicast Addresses page would be clarified to inform the reader they can view the IANA list of registered multicast addresses.
rex 21:49, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Ethernet Multicast is IP Multicast too?
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:
- In computer networking a multicast address is an identifier for a group of hosts that have joined a multicast group using the IP Multicast protocol.
--SymlynX 17:33, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] IP address format
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)
