All things related to multicast

[(Kevin C. Almeroth)]

From: Hugh LaMaster 
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To: Jill Gemmill 
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cc: Jeremy George 
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Subject: RE: Las Cruces Summary


On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Jill Gemmill wrote:

> So far ViDe seems to be focusing on server-centric videoconferencing. What 
> I'm
> doing is not (yet) a part of the ViDe effort.
> 
> Since I'm working on this for our campus, anyway, I would be willing to
> participate in a bakeoff.
> 
> We're also interested in getting some REAL information about NIC's and which
> support multicast in hardware (and, which do address filtering in hardware).
> Vendors do not seem to be very forthcoming with this type of info.

I don't have the URL handy, but, there are a couple of web pages
somewhere, at NPS (Monterey) I think, and, somewhere as the MIT
CAIRN pages, or some of the related FreeBSD pages, that describe 
the multicast features of the different cards in some detail.
The last time I looked, of the 10/100 PCI bus NICs, the DEC Tulip-
based cards were the clear winners, and, they are supported almost
everywhere.  However, some people prefer the new Intel implementation
because it is more efficient CPU/memory-bus-wise.  Look for those
pages; I don't know if they have been updated to include gigabit
ethernet.


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