The Study Of IPv6 Multicast Based On Network Processor

With the development of the network technology these years, there are more and more applications needing high bandwidth in the Internet. Among the different solutions to solve the bottle neck of network bandwidth, multicast technology is one of the most advanced. If we use multicast technology, even when the number of users in the network increases dramatically, the consuming of bandwidth in back-bone will not increase too much. It is well known that IPv6 is the standard protocol of the next generation Internet. IPv6 supports the multicast technology directly. According to RFC 1752, IPv6 network device must support the multicast technology. So in IPv6 network, the network device will widely support multicast applications.The research of network device and the development of Internet always promote each other. As the enhancement of the network applications'performance requirement, a new processor,network processor, which is...