----- Original Message ----- From: "Pong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2002 10:43 AM Subject: Re: [plug] 192.168.100.1?
> the other subscribers on the same cable broadcast segment can send a > 224.0.0.1 multicast packet but your pc/hardware router will not forward it > to your lan even if its time-to-live value is greater than 1 (assuming > the router implements multicast routing correctly). so only the router can > see that multicast packet, but the internal hosts in your lan will not. this is not true :-> by increasing the ttl, an application can perform an *expanding ring search* for a particular server... the first multicast datagram is sent with a ttl of 1, if no response is received, a ttl of 2 is tried, then 3 and so on and so forth... in this way, the application locates the closest server in terms of hops. fooler. _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
