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{{Short description|Logical identifier addressing a specific group of devices on a network}} {{Broader|Multicast}} A '''multicast address''' is a logical identifier for a group of [[Host (network)|host]]s in a [[computer network]] that are available to process [[datagram]]s or frames intended to be [[multicast]] for a designated [[network service]]. Multicast addressing can be used in the [[link layer]] (layer 2 in the [[OSI model]]), such as [[Ethernet]] multicast, and at the [[internet layer]] (layer 3 for OSI) for [[Internet Protocol]] Version 4 (IPv4) or Version 6 (IPv6) multicast.
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