28 Nov
2006
28 Nov
'06
4:31 a.m.
On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Truman Boyes wrote:
Good point on the number of addresses required for STBs. In a common and well deployed approach to deploying multiplay solutions (ie. video and other stuff), a single public address is required at the residential gateway. It is perfectly sane to use 0.0.0.0 or some other unique address to receive the multicast traffic (video).
No, don't use 0.0.0.0. Because some devices when configured this way will reply to ARP requests for any address. Which makes for a large amount of background ARP noise. --David