Method and apparatus for forwarding multicast data by relaying IGMP group membership
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Nov 25, 2003
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Apr 15, 1999
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A method, apparatus and article of manufacture for forwarding multicast data by relaying IGMP group membership. A router is used to build a database of a plurality of interfaces and corresponding multicast groups, and the database is stored on the router. Information from the database is reported upstream to a multicast router. Multicast data is received from the multicast router and distributed to the plurality of interfaces based upon the database.
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