8 Jul
2003
8 Jul
'03
7:33 a.m.
On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 01:41:00PM +1200, Richard Naylor wrote:
At 01:14 p.m. 9/07/2003 +1200, Ewen McNeill wrote:
Umm, that's not how multicasting works (indeed it's the key difference between multicasting and broadcasting). But I think you know that already.
sorry - forgot NZ isn't one flat L2 network - yet ;-)
Even then, a well designed large L2 network (ie. one with IGMP snooping, or equivalent) won't flood multicast data. -- Cameron Kerr cameron.kerr(a)paradise.net.nz : http://nzgeeks.org/cameron/ Empowered by Perl!