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Figure 6 IPv4-to-MAC address mapping
XXXX X
XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX 1110 XXXX
0XXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX 0000 0001 0000 0000 0101 1110
32-bit IPv4 address
48-bit MAC address
5 bits lost
25-bit MAC address prefix
… 23 bits
mapped
…
The high-order four bits of a multicast IPv4 address are 1110, indicating that this address is a multicast
address, and only 23 bits of the remaining 28 bits are mapped to a MAC address, so five bits of the
multicast IPv4 address are lost. As a result, 32 multicast IPv4 addresses map to the same IPv4 multicast
MAC address. Therefore, in Layer 2 multicast forwarding, a device may receive some multicast data
destined for other IPv4 multicast groups, and such redundant data needs to be filtered by the upper layer.
2. IPv6 multicast MAC addresses
The high-order 16 bits of an IPv6 multicast MAC address are 0x3333, and the low-order 32 bits are the
low-order 32 bits of a multicast IPv6 address. Figure 7 shows an example of mapping an IPv6 multicast
address, FF1E::F30E:101, to a MAC address.
Figure 7 An example of IPv6-to-MAC address mapping
Multicast Protocols