RFC 1112 "Host Extensions for IP Multicasting". Steve Deering. August 1989.
RFC 2236 "Internet Group Management Protocol, version 2". W. Fenner.
November 1997.
RFC 1458 "Requirements for Multicast Protocols". Braudes, R and Zabele, S.
May 1993.
RFC 1469 "IP Multicast over Token-Ring Local Area Networks". T. Pusateri.
June 1993.
RFC 1390 "Transmission of IP and ARP over FDDI Networks". D. Katz.
January 1993.
RFC 1583 "OSPF Version 2". John Moy. March 1994.
RFC 1584 "Multicast Extensions to OSPF". John Moy. March 1994.
RFC 1585 "MOSPF: Analysis and Experience". John Moy. March 1994.
RFC 1812 "Requirements for IP version 4 Routers". Fred Baker,
Editor. June 1995
RFC 2117 "Protocol Independent Multicast-Sparse Mode (PIM-SM):
Protocol Specification". D. Estrin, D. Farinacci, A. Helmy,
D. Thaler; S. Deering, M. Handley, V. Jacobson, C. Liu,
P. Sharma, and L. Wei. July 1997.
RFC 2189 "Core Based Trees (CBT version 2) Multicast Routing".
A. Ballardie. September 1997.
RFC 2201 "Core Based Trees (CBT) Multicast Routing Architecture".
A. Ballardie. September 1997.
"TCP/IP Illustrated: Volume 1 The Protocols". Stevens, W. Richard.
Addison Wesley Publishing Company, Reading MA, 1994
"TCP/IP Illustrated: Volume 2, The Implementation". Wright, Gary and
W. Richard Stevens. Addison Wesley Publishing Company, Reading MA, 1995
"UNIX Network Programming Volume 1. Networking APIs: Sockets and
XTI". Stevens, W. Richard. Second Edition, Prentice Hall, Inc. 1998.
"Internetworking with TCP/IP Volume 1 Principles, Protocols, and
Architecture". Comer, Douglas E. Second Edition, Prentice Hall, Inc.
Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1991