From: Sean Dague on Friday, May 06, 2005 12:45 PM > > On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 12:11:45PM -0700, David Mathog wrote: > > > > > Multicast != Broadcast. If the clients don't sign up for the > multicast > > > channel they won't see any packets. > > > > No, you're little D-Link probably doesn't handle multicast other than > dumping it out everywhere, though I've never tested that fact. A more > enterprise class switch will, as multicast is supposed to be dealt with at > Layer 2 and is what IGMP is all about. > > At the same time, running tee algorithms on a little D-Link may cause all > sorts of pain, as you are sending the same packets down and back through > the > switch for every node, so while each node only sees 80 mb, the switch has > to > deal with 80mb * 2 * N (where N is number of nodes). That will either > melt > a switch of that class
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