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RFC 3376: Internet Group Management Protocol, Version 3

This RFC has been replaced. Do not implement against it for new work — it was formally obsoleted by RFC 9776.

Current version: RFC 9776Internet Group Management Protocol, Version 3

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This document specifies Version 3 of the Internet Group Management Protocol, IGMPv3. IGMP is the protocol used by IPv4 systems to report their IP multicast group memberships to neighboring multicast routers. Version 3 of IGMP adds support for 'source filtering', that is, the ability for a system to report interest in receiving packets *only* from specific source addresses, or from *all but* specific source addresses, sent to a particular multicast address. That information may be used by multicast routing protocols to avoid delivering multicast packets from specific sources to networks where there are no interested receivers. This document obsoletes RFC 2236.

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Document ID
RFC3376
Published
October 2002
Authors
B. Cain; S. Deering; I. Kouvelas; B. Fenner; A. Thyagarajan
Status
PROPOSED STANDARD
Stream
IETF
Area
rtg
Pages
53
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Obsoleted by:
RFC 9776
Updates:
RFC 2236
Updated by:
RFC 4604

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