[lug] Multicast packets?

[Atkinson, Chip]

Thanks for the information.  I don't think we have that kind of network
traffic though, not that I know of anyway.

Chip

> -----Original Message-----
> From: D. Stimits [mailto:stimits at idcomm.com]
> Sent: Monday, February 12, 2001 1:55 PM
> To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> Subject: Re: [lug] Multicast packets?
> 
> 
> "Atkinson, Chip" wrote:
> > 
> > Does anyone know what things use multicast packets?  
> Specifically I'm trying
> > to find out why my machine has outages with the network.  
> Upon looking at
> > the problem I see blasts of multicast packets as reported 
> by ntop.  I'm just
> > in a "typical" corporate network.  I believe that the 
> outage is caused
> > because the network is 100Mb/s whereas my machine is 10Mb/s and the
> > translation is done by the hub I'm connected to.  This then 
> means that the
> > data being sent out by the 100Mb/s machines basically 
> overwhelms my machine.
> > 
> > Thanks in advance,
> > 
> > Chip
> 
> Do you have any "broadcast" style programs running in your 
> network, such
> as a radio station broadcasting to multiple users? The idea 
> is a single
> packet being marked for a large set of ip addresses, thus letting a
> single packet server all of those people at once, instead of 
> independent
> connections to all users, along with independent packets. Another
> example is if your net has an internal television setup for 
> educational
> programming that can be received by anyone.
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