All things related to multicast

["Ying Zhang" <>]

We use Nortel ERS5500 switches.

Ying
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To: "Ying Zhang" 
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Cc: "Yongrui Tang" <>; "Dan Oachs" <>; 
"wg-multicast" <>
Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 11:09 AM
Subject: Re: Lab imaging using multicast


> Hi,
> > Thanks for the reply. We'll double check that. When we set up a test 
> > environment with three clients, they all run at 1-gig full-duplex. It 
> > took 30 minutes to image all three with unicast but 75 minutes with 
> > multicast.
>
> what switches? some makes have issues with eg IGMP awareness being turned
> on - performance can go through the floor(!)
>
> alan