All things related to multicast

[Tony Rimovsky <>]

It isn't the same product Jeff mentions below, but the Enterprise Edition of
Norton Ghost specifically uses multicasting to clone multiple disks/systems
simultaneously.  I'll ask the PC guys here if they have a manual handy.  Off
the top of my head, I can't remember the group address Ghost used.

Judging from the DriveImage web page, it looks like they have a similar
feature.  The software was probably being used as advertised.

The fun comes, of course,  when a 100bT connected image server starts
pushing data to 10bT connected hosts at > 10Mbit/s.


On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Jeff Olenchek wrote:

> We had a 7513/120-8.5.S melt (RIP packets would stop being sent)
> when a lan administator used a package called DriveImage. DriveImage
> sends data to address 230.0.0.1/01-00-5e-00-00-01.
> 
> Is there any repository of information available that documents
> the problems multicast enabled networks might encounter with
> packages like DriveImage?
> 
> Thank you,
>  jeff Olenchek
>  U of Wisconsin-Milwaukee