All things related to multicast

[Bill Owens <>]

On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 04:24:36PM -0400, Richard Mavrogeanes wrote:
> My two cents:
> 
> Multicast is not used more often because:
> 
> 1. The default condition of virtually all routers is to disable multicast.
. . .

All true, and I certainly know that multicast is not an easy thing to 
configure, manage and repair (or even understand!) but I'm intentionally 
preaching the choir here. I wasn't asking why Joe Public doesn't use 
multicast more often, I was asking why *we* don't use it more often. 

My application, weekly recurring conference calls with a standing group of 
people, all at Internet2 sites, all of them advanced network users, seems 
like an ideal place to use multicast a/v tools - and yet, we don't. There 
must be dozens of similar conference calls every week; heck, Internet2 has 
their own conference system, and they wouldn't have bothered if they didn't 
use it a lot. Isn't there something wrong with that picture? 

Bill.