All things related to multicast

[Dan Pritts <>]

On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 09:01:01AM -0700, Leonard Giuliano wrote:
> It strikes me as odd that lack of snooping could CAUSE mcast to not be 
> deployed and used.  

Then you haven't been on a LAN where someone is running DVTS multicast
(30 megabit per second) without snooping switches, and tried to use
a realtime application like VoIP or H.323 video.  

> Lack of snooping is only a problem when there's too 
> much mcast (and one could argue that's a good sign for mcast deployment- 
> there's too much mcast!).

One stream can be much too much.

danno