Methods for obtaining terminal multicasts status
AssigneeThomson Licensing
InventorsRen Lei Chen, Xiao Jun Ma, Guang Hua Zhou, Jun Li
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Abstract
The present invention provides a method for sending a message to a network device with a specific MAC address, in an IP network implementing a interne group management protocol IGMP, comprising: sending, by a network terminal, to the network device, a multicast group management status message including a destination address set as the specific MAC address.
Claims9
A method for sending a message to a network device with a specific MAC address, in an IP network implementing an internet group management protocol, comprising:
- sending, by a network terminal, to the network device, a multicast group management status message including a destination address set as the specific MAC address.
A method for obtaining terminal status used in a network device connecting with a multicast group including at least one network terminal, in an IP network implementing an internet group management protocol, the method comprises:
- sending, to a network terminal of the multicast group, a multicast group management status message including a destination address set as a specific MAC address of the network terminal.
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