On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
... > documentation will likely see this behaviour documented. Changing it > might introduce insidious bugs in the code -- because in reality, > clusters are almost never shared except for those on the TCP send queue > and for multicast packets (but who uses multicast, anyways), so there is > a chance that we will have buggy code that goes unnoticed for a long > time. ... I use multicast on my workstation pretty much every day. While my own box isn't a multicast router, we have several FreeBSD boxes deployed as multicast routers at NAI Labs that are also used daily. Sure is a lot cheaper than the commercial video-conferencing services, and as long as you use telephone conferencing for the audio, it even sounds good too :-). No comment on the technical work going on here intended, just wanted to observe that people actually do use multicast :-). Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project [EMAIL PROTECTED] NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
