Method and system for providing source specific multicast service on ethernet network

Abstract

There are provided a method and a system for providing a source specific multicast service on an Ethernet network. The system includes: a router managing a subscriber; a user terminal transmitting an IGMP packet to the router and transmitting channel reception information that uses an MAC address of the router as a destination MAC address; and an Ethernet switch receiving the channel reception information from the user terminal, determining whether there is a channel subscriber in a port to which the channel reception information has been input based on the contents of the channel reception information, and then outputting a frame that has a channel MAC address, which is the same as that of the channel reception information, as a destination address to the input port in a case where there is a channel subscriber in the input port.

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