Re: multicasting - newbie queries
On May 31, 2:28 pm, john.maxi...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Hi,
I Have a network interface, I have assigned an unicast IP adress to
it.
Can i assign a multicast IP address to it?. (ie Class D IP
address)?
That wouldn't be meaningful.
My question is -1) When i join an multicast group - does that mean
that i have assigned the IP address of my interface to multicast IP address?
No, it means that you've sent a message to the router to forward that
multicast traffic to you.
In otherwords what will be the source address of the IP packet sent
by a machine which belongs to a multicast group?.
The source IP of multicast packets is an IP address in the A-C range.
(If there's an exception to this, I'm not thinking of it.)
.
Relevant Pages
- RE: nlb mode
... In my experience I have used both unicast and multicast. ... It all depends on what your NLB hosts will be doing and if they need to ... there is no inter-host communication possible between the hosts ...
(microsoft.public.windows.server.clustering) - Re: nlb mode
... I would need inter-host communication for the same reason as you: ... Now I could do Unicast & add a 2nd nic to each server, ... > In my experience I have used both unicast and multicast. ... Since all hosts in the cluster have the same IP Address and the same MAC ...
(microsoft.public.windows.server.clustering) - Re: Routing SMP benefit
... I know there are implementations out there which use the unicast BSD routing code to do multicast. ... but they also need to send traffic to all of the next-hops. ... This is basically what the MROUTING code does, but it does so completely separately from the unicast forwarding code. ... So it's something to think about for folks doing multipath work -- the same performance constraints which affect struct rtentry *now* for SMP and multipath work will potentially affect multicast forwarding in future. ...
(freebsd-net) - Re: Message sender and receiver for unicast+multicast+Broadcast
... > unicast, multicast, Broadcast and get the ACK for every message sent. ...
(comp.unix.programmer) - Re: nlb mode
... Ok based on this information I would use multicast without a doubt. ... flooding unicast will actually cause in your network setup. ... static arp entries if required by your router. ... >> multicast address to the cluster instead of changing it and this makes ...
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