It is well known that many of our clients are able to have more than one web browser on their computer. While this is often a good thing for everyone, it is certainly worth considering if you are going to have multiple computers or devices with different browsers. I have already talked about this with a few of my clients on this blog, so I won’t go into it again. However, I highly recommend that you consider whether you will be using this feature and how to get it.
My recommendation is to use the ipv6 feature on your router. That is, if you have a router that supports ipv6. It will allow you to set up multicast address settings in your router that will allow you to have multiple computers or devices with many different browsers. It will even allow you to have more than one computer or device per connection.
The most common problem with multicast addresses is that if you connect multiple computers, it will be very difficult to get on the network and keep the connection open because you will need to figure out the ports. For other computer-based solutions, you can use IP addresses. It is quite easy to use but not as easy as you used to.
IP addresses are much easier to remember, but it is important to understand that for a computer to be able to see or connect to other computers, it must have a special computer-to-computer connection protocol. This protocol is called IP. To be able to use IP addresses, computers must be able to handle internetworking protocols well.
Multicast is a protocol that allows a computer to send data to multiple computers through a single IP address. When a computer sends a request for data to an IP address, the computer must know if the request is to be forwarded to another computer on the same network. This is called a unicast address.
IP addresses are unique. They’re not fixed. They have no connection to a regular internet connection. IP addresses will not work when the internet connection is down or if the router is not configured to handle it.
Multicast addresses use IPv6 as the underlying protocol, and are what the internet uses to allow multiple computers to send data to one another. It is based upon the IPv4 protocol, which is the underlying protocol for the internet. However, it does not allow multiple computers to send data to one another on the same connection. Instead, the computer receiving the request must know that the request is from a different computer on the network.
Up or down, as the name suggests, multicast addresses can work different than IPv4 addresses.
Multicasting is a way of enabling computers to contact one another over a network for the purpose of sending data to one another. This is commonly used in situations where two computers are unable to communicate directly, such as when the computers are on a network. The reason multicast addresses work differently is that they are not addresses at all. Instead, they are port numbers used by routers and switches to identify the location of the receiving computer that is sending information.
For more information, see the “Network Address” section of this chapter.
