All things related to multicast

[Gary Parker <>]

> On 12 Mar 2015, at 13:00, Bill Owens 
> <>
>  wrote:
> 
> Yes, there is a bar at Longborough called the Elvyn, and it presumably has 
> a till. Which, for some reason, is using multicast, with a global (and 
> reserved) group address. And setting an apparently unnecessary flag that 
> makes the packets go to every router, everywhere.
> 
> I think it's extremely unlikely that I would ever be able to find Jack 
> Lakin or a networking person at lut.ac.uk who would be interested in 
> reconfiguring their cash register, so I'll be filtering that myself…

Fortunately we’re on-list Bill!

I’ll have a chat with the networks guys and we’ll have a look...

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