rfc2236 IGMPv2.docVIP

rfc2236 IGMPv2 Network Working Group W. Fenner Request for Comments: 2236 Xerox PARC Updates: 1112 November 1997 Category: Standards Track Internet Group Management Protocol, Version 2 Status of this Memo This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the Internet Official Protocol Standards (STD 1) for the standardization state and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Copyright Notice Copyright (C) The Internet Society (1997). All Rights Reserved. Abstract This memo documents IGMPv2, used by IP hosts to report their multicast group memberships to routers. It updates STD 5, RFC 1112. IGMPv2 allows group membership termination to be quickly reported to the routing protocol, which is important for high-bandwidth multicast groups and/or subnets with highly volatile group membership. This document is a product of the Inter-Domain Multicast Routing working group within the Internet Engineering Task Force. Comments are solicited and should be addressed to the working groups mailing list at idmr@cs.ucl.ac.uk and/or the author(s). 1. Definitions The key words MUST, MUST NOT, REQUIRED, SHALL, SHALL NOT, SHOULD, SHOULD NOT, RECOMMENDED, MAY, and OPTIONAL in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119 [RFC 2119]. 2. Introduction The Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) is used by IP hosts to report their multicast group memberships to any immediately- neighboring multicast routers. This memo describes only the use of IGMP between hosts and routers to determine group membership. Routers that are members of multicast groups are expected to behave F