All things related to multicast

[Hugh LaMaster <>]

On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Tony Rimovsky wrote:

> 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

Interesting.

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

Exactly.  It isn't clear from the original description if the
router really had a problem or not.

There could also be more "fun" if the packages make inconsistent 
assumptions about scope of multicast (does anyone know if they
use TTL=1?), and, possibly some security "fun" as well.  Do any 
of these packages do (effective) authentication/authorization?



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