Multicast - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multicast
This article is about one-to-many communications. For radio systems, see Point-to-multipoint communication. For broadcasting multiple programs using a single channel, see Multicast channel.
如果你使用的是Linux操作系统,并希望检查你的网络是否支持多播,请对 你的网络接口(通常是eth0)使用ifconfig命令。如果你的网络支持多播,你 会从前面命令的响应中看到MULTICAST属性。
[root@b ~]# ifconfig
eth0: flags=4163 mtu 1500
inet 10.27.32.114 netmask 255.255.252.0 broadcast 10.27.35.255
ether 00:16:3e:2e:8a:f6 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 6411780215 bytes 1875051735478 (1.7 TiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 4868429492 bytes 1968247596474 (1.7 TiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overrun