224.0.0.1 - The All Hosts Multicast Group

This section provides a quick introduction of the All Hosts Multicast Group, 224.0.0.1. All systems on the network must join the All Hosts Multicast Group on all its IP interfaces.

The first IP multicast address, 224.0.0.1, is called the All Hosts Multicast Group. All systems on the network must join the All Hosts Multicast Group on all its IP interfaces. Here is what I did to verify this on my Windows XP system:

I used the "ipconfig /all" to see all my IP interfaces:

C:\herong>ipconfig /all
...

Ethernet adapter Wireless Network Connection:
 Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . : myhome.westell.com
 Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG ...
 Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-19-D2-D3-AA-D3
 Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
 Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
 IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.5
 Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
 Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1
 DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1
 DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:
 Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . : myhome.westell.com
 Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Eth...
 Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-16-D4-E9-C5-19
 Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
 Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
 IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.4
 Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
 Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :
 DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1
 DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1

Ok. I have 2 IP interfaces: a wireless interface and an Ethernet interface. Now I used the "netsh interface ip show joins" to see who joined the All Hosts Multicast Group:

C:\herong>netsh interface ip show joins

Interface Addr   Multicast Group
---------------  ---------------
192.168.0.5      224.0.0.1
192.168.0.4      224.0.0.1

This confirms that 2 interfaces on my system joined the All Hosts Multicast Group.

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