This document section discusses address mapping, error reporting, and multicasting at the network layer. It covers address mapping between logical and physical addresses using static or dynamic mapping. It also covers the ICMP protocol for error reporting and queries as a companion to IP, and the IGMP protocol for multicasting to allow hosts to join multicast groups. Examples and figures illustrate concepts like ARP, ICMP error messages, IGMP group management, and mapping IP multicast addresses to Ethernet addresses.
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