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On Sun, 10 Jun 2001, Tim Winders wrote: > Now my eye's are glazing over. :-) Did you mean "receive but not send" i did indeed. there wash shushi in my keyboardsh. > UUnet's arguement for charging to sendis that you can potentially chew up > large portions of their network bandwith with only a small connection > yourself. what else is multicast for? hopefully it works out cheaper than your expected outbound unicast streams would have cost (including the clue overhead for supporting mcast) > Very true. I am having a hard time grasping the technical specifics. It > has taken quite a bit of study and discussion to figure out what I have so > far, and I am sure I have misunderstood many things. Unfortunately, what > I am finding out, is that multicast is a subject that rarely comes up as > an option with customers. There isn't a demand, so the providers don't > put the resources into it... things don't gain momentum if they keep changing direction. <sotto-voce>the same might be said to the v6 folks</sotto-voce> - J
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