Survey of Multicast Support for IP over ATM for Implementation Purposes

Simon Oosthoek

July 4th, 1997

University of Twente

Department of Computer Science
Tele-Informatics and Open Systems (TIOS) and
Systems Programming and Architecture (SPA)

Supervisors

• Ir. F.W. Hoeksema (TIOS)
• Ir. P.G. Jansen (SPA)
• Ing. R.G.A. Bults (LAB)

• Abstract
• Samenvatting
• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• Introduction
  • Motivation to research IP multicasting over ATM
  • Problem statement
  • Structure of This Thesis
• The Internet Protocol Suite
  • Basic Network Description
  • TCP/IP Protocol Suite Implementation Model
  • IP addressing
  • ARP
  • Implementation Architecture of Physical Components
  • Conclusions
• IP multicasting
  • Multicasting
  • Multicasting in the Internet Protocol
  • Adding multicast support to the IP Layer
  • IP Multicast Addressing
  • Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP)
  • Data Forwarding between IP Entities
  • IP Multicast Usage
  • Conclusions
• ATM, LANE and CLIP
  • Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM)
  • LAN Emulation (LANE)
  • Classical IP and ARP over ATM (CLIP)
  • Carrying Connectionless Data over ATM
  • Conclusions
• IP Multicasting over ATM
  • RFC 2022 Concepts
  • Intra-Cluster IP Multicast Transmissions over ATM
  • Multicast Address Resolution
  • MARS Group Management
  • IP Multicast Transmission Example
  • Integration of the MARS with CLIP
  • IP Multicast over ATM, Alternatives
  • Conclusions
• Linux ATM System
  • The Linux Operating System
  • The Linux-ATM driver
  • Getting Linux-ATM Operational
  • Conclusions
• IP multicasting on the Linux-ATM system
  • Implementation of the RFC 2022 Entities in Linux-ATM
  • Point-to-Multipoint Solutions
  • Available Source Code
  • Future Developments of the ATM driver
  • Conclusions
• Conclusions and Recommendations
  • Conclusions
  • Recommendations
  • Conjectures
• References
• List of Figures
• Index
• List of Acronyms
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