All things related to multicast

[Jay Young <>]

Good question, I don't really know how the streaming software works. I 
could imagine that each server could source multiple groups and start 
sending traffic to a group once someone hits a web page. You wouldn't 
want separate servers sourcing the same group.

I will ask; it may not be an issue with multicast at all except they 
need a balancer for unicast streams, so the balancer even if not 
balancing the mcast traffic will need to be smart enough not to get in 
the way.

Thanks,
Jay


Charles R. Anderson wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 11:20:37AM -0500, Jay Young wrote:
>
> > One of our groups on campus is using a real media server to stream media 
> > across campus, they have it setup to use multicast as well. They are 
> > wanting to setup a load balancer in front of multiple servers.
>
>
> Why load balance multicast?  No matter how many clients, you still 
> have only one stream transmitted from the server...

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