All things related to multicast

["Roy D. Hockett" <>]

Since Multicast on Hubs = Broadcast, you want to limit/block IP
multicast,
but not block other types of multicast, like Appletalk.  The problem
with blocking multicast you break any protocol that relies on multicast.
Dropping the packets is fine, since you don't want to throttle the
source
you simply don't want everyone on a hub to not be able to use the
network.

-Roy
 

Bill Owens wrote:
> 
> At 9:11 -0500 9/24/02, Tim Ward wrote:
> >Yep, we'd love the same thing now that our 20 channels of TV are running.
> >We'd like to limit at the network layer to something like 6 Mbps of
> >multicast out to the student.
> 
> How would that work? Since there's no backpressure on the multicast
> source, you'd just end up dropping packets, right? I guess it would
> help to reserve some room for other traffic, but I would think that
> once the students learn that running too much multicast makes their
> KaZaA downloads slow, they'd watch fewer channels ;)
> 
> Bill.

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