All things related to multicast

[Russ Hobby <>]

I wasn't directly involved with the problem or the solution but I will get 
the details and report back. (or if any of you on the list were involved 
you can report directly ;-)

Russ

At 06:01 AM 10/25/2005, Russ Hobby wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have been asked a question from a researcher who's project has been 
> trying to use multicast for some time with many problems, and she asked me 
> "Are we trying to do the impossible?"
>
> Their particular use of multicast relies on multiple multicast connections 
> and for them to be set up in a timely fashion.  It is the setup time for a 
> connection with which they have been having trouble.  Connections can take 
> up to several minutes to be established.  They have worked the problem out 
> with a couple of campuses and a gigapop to get it to work (which had to 
> wait for new router codes to be installed in several places).  However 
> every time they go to a new site, they are likely to have the problem 
> again and they have to work it through those network engineers.
>
> So the researcher is asking if they should give up on multicast and 
> redesign their application.  What do you think?
>
> Russ