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DVMRP

Last Updated May 24, 2021 1:41 pm

Short for Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol, an interior gateway protocol based on RIP that supports connectionless multicast data transmission to a group of hosts over a network. DVMRP tunnels multicast transmission within unicast packets that are reassembled into multicast data when they arrive at their destination.

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