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Re: [Chetan Rai <[email protected]>] Re: Help with LAN
Chetan,
Ahmed is right. Some of the multicast routing mechanisms implemented
earlier do not support LANs.
-Polly
On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, Ahmed A-G Helmy wrote:
> > Currently, LAN does not support multicast (because I'm not an expert).
> > I'm currently discussing this with the USC/ISI people, so hopefully, the
> > next release will support multicast over LAN.
>
> In addition,... I think CtrMcast does not support LANs (since it is
> centralized)... you can confirm this from Polly Huang
> ([email protected])... you may want to try a detailed mulitcast
> routing agent (like detailedDM) and see what happens (to make things work
> you'd probably have to set the mac dest address of the multicast packets
> to 0 so that it gets broadcast over the LAN)...
>
> As Giao pointed out, we are working on this,..
>
> Regards,
> -A
>
> >
> > Giao
> >
> >
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