----- Original Message -----
From: "fooler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2002 3:08 PM
Subject: Re: [plug] 192.168.100.1?


> ----- 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.

ooppss sorry.. i am referring to not within the range of 224.0.0.0 and
224.0.0.255... within this range regardless of the ttl value, it cannot
multicast further than *one* hop

fooler.

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