Network Working Group S. Deering
`Request for Comments: 1112 Stanford University
`Obsoletes: RFCs 988, 1054 August 1989
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` Host Extensions for IP Multicasting
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`1. STATUS OF THIS MEMO
`
` This memo specifies the extensions required of a host implementation
` of the Internet Protocol (IP) to support multicasting. It is the
` recommended standard for IP multicasting in the Internet.
` Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
`
`2. INTRODUCTION
`
` IP multicasting is the transmission of an IP datagram to a "host
` group", a set of zero or more hosts identified by a single IP
` destination address. A multicast datagram is delivered to all
` members of its destination host group with the same "best-efforts"
` reliability as regular unicast IP datagrams, i.e., the datagram is
` not guaranteed to arrive intact at all members of the destination
` group or in the same order relative to other datagrams.
`
` The membership of a host group is dynamic; that is, hosts may join
` and leave groups at any time. There is no restriction on the
` location or number of members in a host group. A host may be a
` member of more than one group at a time. A host need not be a member
` of a group to send datagrams to it.
`
` A host group may be permanent or transient. A permanent group has a
` well-known, administratively assigned IP address. It is the address,
` not the membership of the group, that is permanent; at any time a
` permanent group may have any number of members, even zero. Those IP
` multicast addresses that are not reserved for permanent groups are
` available for dynamic assignment to transient groups which exist only
` as long as they have members.
`
` Internetwork forwarding of IP multicast datagrams is handled by
` "multicast routers" which may be co-resident with, or separate from,
` internet gateways. A host transmits an IP multicast datagram as a
` local network multicast which reaches all immediately-neighboring
` members of the destination host group. If the datagram has an IP
` time-to-live greater than 1, the multicast router(s) attached to the
` local network take responsibility for forwarding it towards all other
` networks that have members of the destination group. On those other
` member networks that are reachable within the IP time-to-live, an
` attached multicast router completes delivery by transmitting the
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` datagram as a local multicast.
`
` This memo specifies the extensions required of a host IP
` implementation to support IP multicasting, where a "host" is any
` internet host or gateway other than those acting as multicast
` routers. The algorithms and protocols used within and between
` multicast routers are transparent to hosts and will be specified in
` separate documents. This memo also does not specify how local
` network multicasting is accomplished for all types of network,
` although it does specify the required service interface to an
` arbitrary local network and gives an Ethernet specification as an
` example. Specifications for other types of network will be the
` subject of future memos.
`
`3. LEVELS OF CONFORMANCE
`
` There are three levels of conformance to this specification:
`
` Level 0: no support for IP multicasting.
`
` There is, at this time, no requirement that all IP implementations
` support IP multicasting. Level 0 hosts will, in general, be
` unaffected by multicast activity. The only exception arises on some
` types of local network, where the presence of level 1 or 2 hosts may
` cause misdelivery of multicast IP datagrams to level 0 hosts. Such
` datagrams can easily be identified by the presence of a class D IP
` address in their destination address field; they should be quietly
` discarded by hosts that do not support IP multicasting. Class D
` addresses are described in section 4 of this memo.
`
` Level 1: support for sending but not receiving multicast IP
` datagrams.
`
` Level 1 allows a host to partake of some multicast-based services,
` such as resource location or status reporting, but it does not allow
` a host to join any host groups. An IP implementation may be upgraded
` from level 0 to level 1 very easily and with little new code. Only
` sections 4, 5, and 6 of this memo are applicable to level 1
` implementations.
`
` Level 2: full support for IP multicasting.
`
` Level 2 allows a host to join and leave host groups, as well as send
` IP datagrams to host groups. It requires implementation of the
` Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) and extension of the IP and
` local network service interfaces within the host. All of the
` following sections of this memo are applicable to level 2
` implementations.
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`4. HOST GROUP ADDRESSES
`
` Host groups are identified by class D IP addresses, i.e., those with
` "1110" as their high-order four bits. Class E IP addresses, i.e.,
` those with "1111" as their high-order four bits, are reserved for
` future addressing modes.
`
` In Internet standard "dotted decimal" notation, host group addresses
` range from 224.0.0.0 to 239.255.255.255. The address 224.0.0.0 is
` guaranteed not to be assigned to any group, and 224.0.0.1 is assigned
` to the permanent group of all IP hosts (including gateways). This is
` used to address all multicast hosts on the directly connected
` network. There is no multicast address (or any other IP address) for
` all hosts on the total Internet. The addresses of other well-known,
` permanent groups are to be published in "Assigned Numbers".
`
` Appendix II contains some background discussion of several issues
` related to host group addresses.
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`5. MODEL OF A HOST IP IMPLEMENTATION
`
` The multicast extensions to a host IP implementation are specified in
` terms of the layered model illustrated below. In this model, ICMP
` and (for level 2 hosts) IGMP are considered to be implemented within
` the IP module, and the mapping of IP addresses to local network
` addresses is considered to be the responsibility of local network
` modules. This model is for expository purposes only, and should not
` be construed as constraining an actual implementation.
`
` | |
` | Upper-Layer Protocol Modules |
` |__________________________________________________________|
`
` --------------------- IP Service Interface -----------------------
` __________________________________________________________
` | | | |
` | | ICMP | IGMP |
` | IP |______________|______________|
` | Module |
` | |
` |__________________________________________________________|
`
` ---------------- Local Network Service Interface -----------------
` __________________________________________________________
` | | |
` | Local | IP-to-local address mapping |
` | Network | (e.g., ARP) |
` | Modules |_____________________________|
` | (e.g., Ethernet) |
` | |
`
` To provide level 1 multicasting, a host IP implementation must
` support the transmission of multicast IP datagrams. To provide level
` 2 multicasting, a host must also support the reception of multicast
` IP datagrams. Each of these two new services is described in a
` separate section, below. For each service, extensions are specified
` for the IP service interface, the IP module, the local network
` service interface, and an Ethernet local network module. Extensions
` to local network modules other than Ethernet are mentioned briefly,
` but are not specified in detail.
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`6. SENDING MULTICAST IP DATAGRAMS
`
`6.1. Extensions to the IP Service Interface
`
` Multicast IP datagrams are sent using the same "Send IP" operation
` used to send unicast IP datagrams; an upper-layer protocol module
` merely specifies an IP host group address, rather than an individual
` IP address, as the destination. However, a number of extensions may
` be necessary or desirable.
`
` First, the service interface should provide a way for the upper-layer
` protocol to specify the IP time-to-live of an outgoing multicast
` datagram, if such a capability does not already exist. If the
` upper-layer protocol chooses not to specify a time-to-live, it should
` default to 1 for all multicast IP datagrams, so that an explicit
` choice is required to multicast beyond a single network.
`
` Second, for hosts that may be attached to more than one network, the
` service interface should provide a way for the upper-layer protocol
` to identify which network interface is be used for the multicast
` transmission. Only one interface is used for the initial
` transmission; multicast routers are responsible for forwarding to any
` other networks, if necessary. If the upper-layer protocol chooses
` not to identify an outgoing interface, a default interface should be
` used, preferably under the control of system management.
`
` Third (level 2 implementations only), for the case in which the host
` is itself a member of a group to which a datagram is being sent, the
` service interface should provide a way for the upper-layer protocol
` to inhibit local delivery of the datagram; by default, a copy of the
` datagram is looped back. This is a performance optimization for
` upper-layer protocols that restrict the membership of a group to one
` process per host (such as a routing protocol), or that handle
` loopback of group communication at a higher layer (such as a
` multicast transport protocol).
`
`6.2. Extensions to the IP Module
`
` To support the sending of multicast IP datagrams, the IP module must
` be extended to recognize IP host group addresses when routing
` outgoing datagrams. Most IP implementations include the following
` logic:
`
` if IP-destination is on the same local network,
` send datagram locally to IP-destination
` else
` send datagram locally to GatewayTo( IP-destination )
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` To allow multicast transmissions, the routing logic must be changed
` to:
`
` if IP-destination is on the same local network
` or IP-destination is a host group,
` send datagram locally to IP-destination
` else
` send datagram locally to GatewayTo( IP-destination )
`
` If the sending host is itself a member of the destination group on
` the outgoing interface, a copy of the outgoing datagram must be
` looped-back for local delivery, unless inhibited by the sender.
` (Level 2 implementations only.)
`
` The IP source address of the outgoing datagram must be one of the
` individual addresses corresponding to the outgoing interface.
`
` A host group address must never be placed in the source address field
` or anywhere in a source route or record route option of an outgoing
` IP datagram.
`
`6.3. Extensions to the Local Network Service Interface
`
` No change to the local network service interface is required to
` support the sending of multicast IP datagrams. The IP module merely
` specifies an IP host group destination, rather than an individual IP
` destination, when it invokes the existing "Send Local" operation.
`
`6.4. Extensions to an Ethernet Local Network Module
`
` The Ethernet directly supports the sending of local multicast packets
` by allowing multicast addresses in the destination field of Ethernet
` packets. All that is needed to support the sending of multicast IP
` datagrams is a procedure for mapping IP host group addresses to
` Ethernet multicast addresses.
`
` An IP host group address is mapped to an Ethernet multicast address
` by placing the low-order 23-bits of the IP address into the low-order
` 23 bits of the Ethernet multicast address 01-00-5E-00-00-00 (hex).
` Because there are 28 significant bits in an IP host group address,
` more than one host group address may map to the same Ethernet
` multicast address.
`
`6.5. Extensions to Local Network Modules other than Ethernet
`
` Other networks that directly support multicasting, such as rings or
` buses conforming to the IEEE 802.2 standard, may be handled the same
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` way as Ethernet for the purpose of sending multicast IP datagrams.
` For a network that supports broadcast but not multicast, such as the
` Experimental Ethernet, all IP host group addresses may be mapped to a
` single local broadcast address (at the cost of increased overhead on
` all local hosts). For a point-to-point link joining two hosts (or a
` host and a multicast router), multicasts should be transmitted
` exactly like unicasts. For a store-and-forward network like the
` ARPANET or a public X.25 network, all IP host group addresses might
` be mapped to the well-known local address of an IP multicast router;
` a router on such a network would take responsibility for completing
` multicast delivery within the network as well as among networks.
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`7. RECEIVING MULTICAST IP DATAGRAMS
`
`7.1. Extensions to the IP Service Interface
`
` Incoming multicast IP datagrams are received by upper-layer protocol
` modules using the same "Receive IP" operation as normal, unicast
` datagrams. Selection of a destination upper-layer protocol is based
` on the protocol field in the IP header, regardless of the destination
` IP address. However, before any datagrams destined to a particular
` group can be received, an upper-layer protocol must ask the IP module
` to join that group. Thus, the IP service interface must be extended
` to provide two new operations:
`
` JoinHostGroup ( group-address, interface )
`
` LeaveHostGroup ( group-address, interface )
`
` The JoinHostGroup operation requests that this host become a member
` of the host group identified by "group-address" on the given network
` interface. The LeaveGroup operation requests that this host give up
` its membership in the host group identified by "group-address" on the
` given network interface. The interface argument may be omitted on
` hosts that support only one interface. For hosts that may be
` attached to more than one network, the upper-layer protocol may
` choose to leave the interface unspecified, in which case the request
` will apply to the default interface for sending multicast datagrams
` (see section 6.1).
`
` It is permissible to join the same group on more than one interface,
` in which case duplicate multicast datagrams may be received. It is
` also permissible for more than one upper-layer protocol to request
` membership in the same group.
`
` Both operations should return immediately (i.e., they are non-
` blocking operations), indicating success or failure. Either
` operation may fail due to an invalid group address or interface
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` identifier. JoinHostGroup may fail due to lack of local resources.
` LeaveHostGroup may fail because the host does not belong to the given
` group on the given interface. LeaveHostGroup may succeed, but the
` membership persist, if more than one upper-layer protocol has
` requested membership in the same group.
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`7.2. Extensions to the IP Module
`
` To support the reception of multicast IP datagrams, the IP module
` must be extended to maintain a list of host group memberships
` associated with each network interface. An incoming datagram
` destined to one of those groups is processed exactly the same way as
` datagrams destined to one of the host’s individual addresses.
`
` Incoming datagrams destined to groups to which the host does not
` belong are discarded without generating any error report or log
` entry. On hosts with more than one network interface, if a datagram
` arrives via one interface, destined for a group to which the host
` belongs only on a different interface, the datagram is quietly
` discarded. (These cases should occur only as a result of inadequate
` multicast address filtering in a local network module.)
`
` An incoming datagram is not rejected for having an IP time-to-live of
` 1 (i.e., the time-to-live should not automatically be decremented on
` arriving datagrams that are not being forwarded). An incoming
` datagram with an IP host group address in its source address field is
` quietly discarded. An ICMP error message (Destination Unreachable,
` Time Exceeded, Parameter Problem, Source Quench, or Redirect) is
` never generated in response to a datagram destined to an IP host
` group.
`
` The list of host group memberships is updated in response to
` JoinHostGroup and LeaveHostGroup requests from upper-layer protocols.
` Each membership should have an associated reference count or similar
` mechanism to handle multiple requests to join and leave the same
` group. On the first request to join and the last request to leave a
` group on a given interface, the local network module for that
` interface is notified, so that it may update its multicast reception
` filter (see section 7.3).
`
` The IP module must also be extended to implement the IGMP protocol,
` specified in Appendix I. IGMP is used to keep neighboring multicast
` routers informed of the host group memberships present on a
` particular local network. To support IGMP, every level 2 host must
` join the "all-hosts" group (address 224.0.0.1) on each network
` interface at initialization time and must remain a member for as long
` as the host is active.
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` (Datagrams addressed to the all-hosts group are recognized as a
` special case by the multicast routers and are never forwarded beyond
` a single network, regardless of their time-to-live. Thus, the all-
` hosts address may not be used as an internet-wide broadcast address.
` For the purpose of IGMP, membership in the all-hosts group is really
` necessary only while the host belongs to at least one other group.
` However, it is specified that the host shall remain a member of the
` all-hosts group at all times because (1) it is simpler, (2) the
` frequency of reception of unnecessary IGMP queries should be low
` enough that overhead is negligible, and (3) the all-hosts address may
` serve other routing-oriented purposes, such as advertising the
` presence of gateways or resolving local addresses.)
`
`7.3. Extensions to the Local Network Service Interface
`
` Incoming local network multicast packets are delivered to the IP
` module using the same "Receive Local" operation as local network
` unicast packets. To allow the IP module to tell the local network
` module which multicast packets to accept, the local network service
` interface is extended to provide two new operations:
`
` JoinLocalGroup ( group-address )
`
` LeaveLocalGroup ( group-address )
`
` where "group-address" is an IP host group address. The
` JoinLocalGroup operation requests the local network module to accept
` and deliver up subsequently arriving packets destined to the given IP
` host group address. The LeaveLocalGroup operation requests the local
` network module to stop delivering up packets destined to the given IP
` host group address. The local network module is expected to map the
` IP host group addresses to local network addresses as required to
` update its multicast reception filter. Any local network module is
` free to ignore LeaveLocalGroup requests, and may deliver up packets
` destined to more addresses than just those specified in
` JoinLocalGroup requests, if it is unable to filter incoming packets
` adequately.
`
` The local network module must not deliver up any multicast packets
` that were transmitted from that module; loopback of multicasts is
` handled at the IP layer or higher.
`
`7.4. Extensions to an Ethernet Local Network Module
`
` To support the reception of multicast IP datagrams, an Ethernet
` module must be able to receive packets addressed to the Ethernet
` multicast addresses that correspond to the host’s IP host group
` addresses. It is highly desirable to take advantage of any address
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` filtering capabilities that the Ethernet hardware interface may have,
` so that the host receives only those packets that are destined to it.
`
` Unfortunately, many current Ethernet interfaces have a small limit on
` the number of addresses that the hardware can be configured to
` recognize. Nevertheless, an implementation must be capable of
` listening on an arbitrary number of Ethernet multicast addresses,
` which may mean "opening up" the address filter to accept all
` multicast packets during those periods when the number of addresses
` exceeds the limit of the filter.
`
` For interfaces with inadequate hardware address filtering, it may be
` desirable (for performance reasons) to perform Ethernet address
` filtering within the software of the Ethernet module. This is not
` mandatory, however, because the IP module performs its own filtering
` based on IP destination addresses.
`
`7.5. Extensions to Local Network Modules other than Ethernet
`
` Other multicast networks, such as IEEE 802.2 networks, can be handled
` the same way as Ethernet for the purpose of receiving multicast IP
` datagrams. For pure broadcast networks, such as the Experimental
` Ethernet, all incoming broadcast packets can be accepted and passed
` to the IP module for IP-level filtering. On point-to-point or
` store-and-forward networks, multicast IP datagrams will arrive as
` local network unicasts, so no change to the local network module
` should be necessary.
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`APPENDIX I. INTERNET GROUP MANAGEMENT PROTOCOL (IGMP)
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` The Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) is used by IP hosts to
` report their host group memberships to any immediately-neighboring
` multicast routers. IGMP is an asymmetric protocol and is specified
` here from the point of view of a host, rather than a multicast
` router. (IGMP may also be used, symmetrically or asymmetrically,
` between multicast routers. Such use is not specified here.)
`
` Like ICMP, IGMP is a integral part of IP. It is required to be
` implemented by all hosts conforming to level 2 of the IP multicasting
` specification. IGMP messages are encapsulated in IP datagrams, with
` an IP protocol number of 2. All IGMP messages of concern to hosts
` have the following format:
`
` 0 1 2 3
` 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
` +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
` |Version| Type | Unused | Checksum |
` +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
` | Group Address |
` +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
`
` Version
`
` This memo specifies version 1 of IGMP. Version 0 is specified
` in RFC-988 and is now obsolete.
`
` Type
`
` There are two types of IGMP message of concern to hosts:
`
` 1 = Host Membership Query
` 2 = Host Membership Report
`
` Unused
`
` Unused field, zeroed when sent, ignored when received.
`
` Checksum
`
` The checksum is the 16-bit one’s complement of the one’s
` complement sum of the 8-octet IGMP message. For computing
` the checksum, the checksum field is zeroed.
`
` Group Address
`
` In a Host Membership Query message, the group address field
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` is zeroed when sent, ignored when received.
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` In a Host Membership Report message, the group address field
` holds the IP host group address of the group being reported.
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`Informal Protocol Description
`
` Multicast routers send Host Membership Query messages (hereinafter
` called Queries) to discover which host groups have members on their
` attached local networks. Queries are addressed to the all-hosts
` group (address 224.0.0.1), and carry an IP time-to-live of 1.
`
` Hosts respond to a Query by generating Host Membership Reports
` (hereinafter called Reports), reporting each host group to which they
` belong on the network interface from which the Query was received.
` In order to avoid an "implosion" of concurrent Reports and to reduce
` the total number of Reports transmitted, two techniques are used:
`
` 1. When a host receives a Query, rather than sending Reports
` immediately, it starts a report delay timer for each of its
` group memberships on the network interface of the incoming
` Query. Each timer is set to a different, randomly-chosen
` value between zero and D seconds. When a timer expires, a
` Report is generated for the corresponding host group. Thus,
` Reports are spread out over a D second interval instead of
` all occurring at once.
`
` 2. A Report is sent with an IP destination address equal to the
` host group address being reported, and with an IP
` time-to-live of 1, so that other members of the same group on
` the same network can overhear the Report. If a host hears a
` Report for a group to which it belongs on that network, the
` host stops its own timer for that group and does not generate
` a Report for that group. Thus, in the normal case, only one
` Report will be generated for each group present on the
` network, by the member host whose delay timer expires first.
` Note that the multicast routers receive all IP multicast
` datagrams, and therefore need not be addressed explicitly.
` Further note that the routers need not know which hosts
` belong to a group, only that at least one host belongs to a
` group on a particular network.
`
` There are two exceptions to the behavior described above. First, if
` a report delay timer is already running for a group membership when a
` Query is received, that timer is not reset to a new random value, but
` rather allowed to continue running with its current value. Second, a
` report delay timer is never set for a host’s membership in the all-
` hosts group (224.0.0.1), and that membership is never reported.
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` If a host uses a pseudo-random number generator to compute the
` reporting delays, one of the host’s own individual IP address should
` be used as part of the seed for the generator, to reduce the chance
` of multiple hosts generating the same sequence of delays.
`
` A host should confirm that a received Report has the same IP host
` group address in its IP destination field and its IGMP group address
` field, to ensure that the host’s own Report is not cancelled by an
` erroneous received Report. A host should quietly discard any IGMP
` message of type other than Host Membership Query or Host Membership
` Report.
`
` Multicast routers send Queries periodically to refresh their
` knowledge of memberships present on a particular network. If no
` Reports are received for a particular group after some number of
` Queries, the routers assume that that group has no local members and
` that they need not forward remotely-originated multicasts for that
` group onto the local network. Queries are normally sent infrequently
` (no more than once a minute) so as to keep the IGMP overhead on hosts
` and networks very low. However, when a multicast router starts up,
` it may issue several closely-spaced Queries in order to build up its
` knowledge of local memberships quickly.
`
` When a host joins a new group, it should immediately transmit a
` Report for that group, rather than waiting for a Query, in case it is
` the first member of that group on the network. To cover the
` possibility of the initial Report being lost or damaged, it is
` recommended that it be repeated once or twice after short delays. (A
` simple way to accomplish this is to act as if a Query had been
` received for that group only, setting the group’s random report delay
` timer. The state transition diagram below illustrates this
` approach.)
`
` Note that, on a network with no multicast routers present, the only
` IGMP traffic is the one or more Reports sent whenever a host joins a
` new group.
`
`State Transition Diagram
`
` IGMP behavior is more formally specified by the state transition
` diagram below. A host may be in one of three possible states, with
` respect to any single IP host group on any single network interface:
`
` - Non-Member state, when the host does not belong to the group
` on the interface. This is the initial state for all
` memberships on all network interfaces; it requires no storage
` in the host.
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` - Delaying Member state, when the host belongs to the group on
` the interface and has a report delay timer running for that
` membership.
`
` - Idle Member state, when the host belongs to the group on the
` interface and does not have a report delay timer running for
` that membership.
`
` There are five significant events that can cause IGMP state
` transitions:
`
` - "join group" occurs when the host decides to join the group on
` the interface. It may occur only in the Non-Member state.
`
` - "leave group" occurs when the host decides to leave the group
` on the interface. It may occur only in the Delaying Member
` and Idle Member states.
`
` - "query received" occurs when the host receives a valid IGMP
` Host Membership Quer