Richard Naylor wrote:
At 10:14 PM 6/29/2005 +1200, Simon Lyall wrote:
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Jamie Baddeley wrote:
Have you considered multicast as an option, and if so, what stopped you from deploying it? Client support or Network support?
Does anyone have full end to end support of multicast? I would guess with bitstream and people having layer-2 all the way it might be possible to do it these days.
In a pure L2 network multicast is a dangerous technology. Think of what happens to a 10meg user when a 100meg user kicks off a 25meg multicast stream.
Not that I'm up to date with Multicast, but isn't that what PIM-Sparse is for? Oh, you said pure L2 network... I suppose that makes it harder. But who doesn't want routers everywhere? ;) Stephen. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Stephen Donnelly BCMS PhD email: sfd(a)endace.com Endace Technology Ltd phone: +64 7 839 0540 Hamilton, New Zealand cell: +64 21 1104378 -----------------------------------------------------------------------