[ntp:questions] Multicast question

Jan Ceuleers janspam.ceuleers at skynet.be
Fri Feb 29 18:43:49 UTC 2008


Martin Burnicki wrote:
> I'd expect that either the kernel routed multicast packets to all interfaces
> (isn't that what routers do with multicasts, contrarily to broadcasts?), or
> the application would send an individual packet on each interface.

Routers have to be told (by means of multicast protocols such as IGMP) 
which interfaces to replicate multicast packets onto.

Jan




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