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Glossary: TCP/IP in Depth, Part 1

multicast

Also written: multicast group, 33:33

Sent to a group of machines rather than to one or to all; in a MAC address, the 1 bit of the first byte marks it. IPv6 multicast goes to MACs that start with 33:33.

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