[Cialug] Multicast, anyone?

L. V. Lammert lvl at omnitec.net
Mon Oct 25 11:27:31 CDT 2010


At 11:21 AM 10/25/2010, you wrote:
>On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 10:50 AM, L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:
> >
> > This will be a public network, however, .. all of the clients will be
> > accessing from their own sites - that's the problem. It sounds like
> > we must acquire a multicast IP?
>
>Is this traffic going across the Internet?  Might as well as forget
>about multicast as almost no ISPs forward multicast traffic.

That's the idea, .. and that's the reason for the question.

If it's problematic, how do companies like Hulu do it?

         Lee



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