All things related to multicast

["Kevin C. Almeroth" <>]

On Wed, 7 Aug 2002, Alan Crosswell wrote:

>>>i believe that the usual story is that it's expected you'll discover it
>>>through a webpage or something of the sort.
>>
>>So in order for my intrinsically many-to-many app to work, I need to use a
>>multiple-unicast protocol?  That sucks.

Or until you can get more people to believe in MSDP.

Unfortunately, too many people associate many-to-many (with dynamic sources)
with MSDP while in the same breath believing MSDP sucks.

The part that sucks now is the extra work of having to program a 
many-to-many application on top of SSM.  You know...  sources
have to register with a "group master", then the group master
sends out the IP addresses of the sources, and then group members
join using SSM.  :-)

-Kevin