Cassandra works very well in EC2 environment. EC2 doesn't support
broadcast/multicast. So, you should be fine.
Thank you,
Andrey
On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 7:22 PM, Jason Tang wrote:
> Hi
>
>We are considering using Cassandra in virtualization environment. I
> wonder is Cassandra using unicast/broadcast/multicast for node discover or
> communication?
>
> From the code, I find the broadcast address is used for heartbeat in
> Gossiper.java, but I don't know how actually it works when node
> communication and when node start up (not for new node added in)
>
> BRs
>
