Summary
IGMP provides a mechanism for hosts to register their interest in receiving IP multicast traffic sent to a specific group address (the Host Membership Report message), for hosts to indicate that they are no longer interested in receiving IP multicast traffic sent to a specific group address (the Leave Group message), and for routers to query the membership of all host groups (the General Host Membership Query) or a single host group (the Group-Specific Host Membership Query). TCP/IP for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista supports IGMPv1, IGMPv2, and IGMPv3, as well as IP multicast forwarding. In Windows Server 2008, the Routing and Remote Access service uses the IGMP routing protocol component and interfaces in IGMP router and proxy ...
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