All things related to multicast

[René Hatem <>]

Bill

I am with you ...
except that besides being geeks we are also a bunch of busy and
productive people.

Going a little out of our way to use multicast in our daily activities,
when there are more effortless ways of accomplishing the same thing is
not something the common person can sustain over any long periods
(unless this turns into a religious crusade or something).

This discussion reminds me of similar discussions regarding IPv6.

-rene


Bill Owens wrote:
> 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.