All things related to multicast

["Charles R. Anderson" <>]

On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 08:40:00AM -0700, Joel Jaeggli wrote:
> our old digital fountain boxes would source on as many as 400 multicast 
> groups. I could pretty much imagine one sourcing on more than 1000, 
> limiting a host to some arbitrary number of sources strikes me as a 
> dangerous presumption about how applications work. Of course they've 
> discontinued the multicast fountain and no-one else appears to do that so 
> it's entirely possible that the issue is moot.

Well, in cases like the Sasser worm, we have a choice between limiting
sources and turning off multicast completely...