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Old 12-13-2004, 07:37 PM   #1
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what is IGMP protocol about? I thought only ICMP, TCP, UDP


What does the IGMP do? I thought only ICMP, TCP, and UDP existed?
 
Old 12-13-2004, 10:03 PM   #2
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Internet Group Management protocol;
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/I/IGMP.html
 
Old 12-22-2004, 11:14 AM   #3
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IGMP is used by hosts to register interest in multicast groups with a multicast router.

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I thought only ICMP, TCP, and UDP existed?
Hmmm, nope the full list looks like this -

0 Reserved [JBP]
1 ICMP Internet Control Message [RFC792,JBP]
2 IGMP Internet Group Management [RFC1112,JBP]
3 GGP Gateway-to-Gateway [RFC823,MB]
4 IP IP in IP (encasulation) [JBP]
5 ST Stream [RFC1190,IEN119,JWF]
6 TCP Transmission Control [RFC793,JBP]
7 UCL UCL [PK]
8 EGP Exterior Gateway Protocol [RFC888,DLM1]
9 IGP any private interior gateway [JBP]
10 BBN-RCC-MON BBN RCC Monitoring [SGC]
11 NVP-II Network Voice Protocol [RFC741,SC3]
12 PUP PUP [PUP,XEROX]
13 ARGUS ARGUS [RWS4]
14 EMCON EMCON [BN7]
15 XNET Cross Net Debugger [IEN158,JFH2]
16 CHAOS Chaos [NC3]
17 UDP User Datagram [RFC768,JBP]
18 MUX Multiplexing [IEN90,JBP]
19 DCN-MEAS DCN Measurement Subsystems [DLM1]
20 HMP Host Monitoring [RFC869,RH6]
21 PRM Packet Radio Measurement [ZSU]
22 XNS-IDP XEROX NS IDP [ETHERNET,XEROX]
23 TRUNK-1 Trunk-1 [BWB6]
24 TRUNK-2 Trunk-2 [BWB6]
25 LEAF-1 Leaf-1 [BWB6]
26 LEAF-2 Leaf-2 [BWB6]
27 RDP Reliable Data Protocol [RFC908,RH6]
28 IRTP Internet Reliable Transaction [RFC938,TXM]
29 ISO-TP4 ISO Transport Protocol Class 4 [RFC905,RC77]
30 NETBLT Bulk Data Transfer Protocol [RFC969,DDC1]
31 MFE-NSP MFE Network Services Protocol [MFENET,BCH2]
32 MERIT-INP MERIT Internodal Protocol [HWB]
33 SEP Sequential Exchange Protocol [JC120]
34 3PC Third Party Connect Protocol [SAF3]
35 IDPR Inter-Domain Policy Routing Protocol [MXS1]

36 XTP XTP [GXC]
37 DDP Datagram Delivery Protocol [WXC]
38 IDPR-CMTP IDPR Control Message Transport Proto [MXS1]
39 TP++ TP++ Transport Protocol [DXF]
40 IL IL Transport Protocol [DXP2]
41 SIP Simple Internet Protocol [SXD]
42 SDRP Source Demand Routing Protocol [DXE1]
43 SIP-SR SIP Source Route [SXD]
44 SIP-FRAG SIP Fragment [SXD]
45 IDRP Inter-Domain Routing Protocol [Sue Hares]
46 RSVP Reservation Protocol [Bob Braden]
47 GRE General Routing Encapsulation [Tony Li]
48 MHRP Mobile Host Routing Protocol[David Johnson]
49 BNA BNA [Gary Salamon]
50 SIPP-ESP SIPP Encap Security Payload [Steve Deering]
51 SIPP-AH SIPP Authentication Header [Steve Deering]
52 I-NLSP Integrated Net Layer Security TUBA [GLENN]
53 SWIPE IP with Encryption [JI6]
54 NHRP NBMA Next Hop Resolution Protocol
55-60 Unassigned [JBP]
61 any host internal protocol [JBP]
62 CFTP CFTP [CFTP,HCF2]
63 any local network [JBP]
64 SAT-EXPAK SATNET and Backroom EXPAK [SHB]
65 KRYPTOLAN Kryptolan [PXL1]
66 RVD MIT Remote Virtual Disk Protocol [MBG]
67 IPPC Internet Pluribus Packet Core [SHB]
68 any distributed file system [JBP]
69 SAT-MON SATNET Monitoring [SHB]
70 VISA VISA Protocol [GXT1]
71 IPCV Internet Packet Core Utility [SHB]
72 CPNX Computer Protocol Network Executive [DXM2]
73 CPHB Computer Protocol Heart Beat [DXM2]
74 WSN Wang Span Network [VXD]
75 PVP Packet Video Protocol [SC3]
76 BR-SAT-MON Backroom SATNET Monitoring [SHB]
77 SUN-ND SUN ND PROTOCOL-Temporary [WM3]
78 WB-MON WIDEBAND Monitoring [SHB]
79 WB-EXPAK WIDEBAND EXPAK [SHB]
80 ISO-IP ISO Internet Protocol [MTR]
81 VMTP VMTP [DRC3]
82 SECURE-VMTP SECURE-VMTP [DRC3]
83 VINES VINES [BXH]
84 TTP TTP [JXS]
85 NSFNET-IGP NSFNET-IGP [HWB]
86 DGP Dissimilar Gateway Protocol [DGP,ML109]
87 TCF TCF [GAL5]
88 IGRP IGRP [CISCO,GXS]

89 OSPFIGP OSPFIGP [RFC1583,JTM4]
90 Sprite-RPC Sprite RPC Protocol [SPRITE,BXW]
91 LARP Locus Address Resolution Protocol [BXH]
92 MTP Multicast Transport Protocol [SXA]
93 AX.25 AX.25 Frames [BK29]
94 IPIP IP-within-IP Encapsulation Protocol [JI6]
95 MICP Mobile Internetworking Control Pro. [JI6]
96 SCC-SP Semaphore Communications Sec. Pro. [HXH]
97 ETHERIP Ethernet-within-IP Encapsulation [RXH1]
98 ENCAP Encapsulation Header [RFC1241,RXB3]
99 any private encryption scheme [JBP]
100 GMTP GMTP [RXB5]
101-254 Unassigned [JBP]
255 Reserved [JBP]
 
Old 12-25-2004, 07:00 PM   #4
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Holy s*%h, now I am more confused :P
 
  


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