VS Renganathan wrote:

> Roman,
> This was dicussed earlier on this list.
> I found one disdavantage of using multicast. My packet size or structure
> kept growing as I added more computers on the network that are **not** image
> generators but pcs used as flight test engineer station or fcs monitoring
> station etc. Why should image generators receive data that is not intended
> for it and vice versa. So I find non-blocking udp fast enough while
> maintaining packet sizes to the minmum required and I suppose bandwidth
> requirements are not too high to cause perceptible delays.
> Regards
> Ranga


Are you shure you don't mean broadcast here?
For what i know, multicast has the destination ip-addresses inside the 
packages, so only intended computers should receive the data.

Erik





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