摘要 |
A method and apparatus for multicast communication, wherein the apparatus is configured for performing the method that includes the steps of: communicating ( 210 ) a request to a server to join a first multicast group, the first multicast group associated with a first multicast address; determining ( 220 ) a second multicast group corresponding to the first multicast group, the second multicast group having a second multicast address; joining ( 230 ) the second multicast group to create a corresponding multicast tunnel; receiving ( 240 ) a first multicast packet from the server using the multicast tunnel, the first multicast packet comprising the first and second multicast addresses; removing ( 250 ) the second multicast address from the first multicast packet; and forwarding ( 260 ) the first multicast packet comprising the first multicast address to an entity.
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