Operation Manual – Multicast
H3C S5600 Series Ethernet Switches
Chapter 1 Multicast Overview
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Table 1-3
Reserved IP multicast addresses
Class D address range
Description
224.0.0.1
Address of all hosts
224.0.0.2
Address of all multicast routers
224.0.0.3 Unassigned
224.0.0.4
Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol
(DVMRP) routers
224.0.0.5
Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) routers
224.0.0.6
Open Shortest Path First designated routers
(OSPF DR)
224.0.0.7
Shared tree routers
224.0.0.8
Shared tree hosts
224.0.0.9 RIP-2
routers
224.0.0.11 Mobile
agents
224.0.0.12
DHCP server/relay agent
224.0.0.13
All Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) routers
224.0.0.14
Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP)
encapsulation
224.0.0.15 All
core-based tree (CBT) routers
224.0.0.16
The specified subnetwork bandwidth
management (SBM)
224.0.0.17 All
SBMS
224.0.0.18
Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)
224.0.0.19 to 224.0.0.255
Other protocols
Note:
Like having reserved the private network segment 10.0.0.0/8 for unicast, IANA has also
reserved the network segment 239.0.0.0/8 for multicast. These are administratively
scoped addresses. With the administratively scoped addresses, you can define the
range of multicast domains flexibly to isolate IP addresses between different multicast
domains, so that the same multicast address can be used in different multicast
domains without causing collisions.