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In a message written on Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 09:33:51PM -0400, John Fraizer wrote:
> One of your clients is a mcast sender. You bill him/her for the traffic
> on their port.
>
> Five of your clients are mcast receivers. You bill them for the traffic
> on their respective ports.
>
> Worst(best?) case scenerio: The sender and the 5 receivers are all on
> your network. You get to bill all six of them.
Works fine.
> If the sender is outside of your network and you have to deliver the mcast
> to 5 different points on your network to your 5 mcast receiver clients,
> you only see the mcast enter your network ONE TIME. You STILL get to bill
> your 5 mcast receiver clients for the traffic on their ports and you only
> have to INGRESS one copy of it to distribute to your 5 clients.
Works fine.
> So, what is the problem?
You have a multicast sender on your network, and the 5 clients are
on 5 different peer networks. You just carried 5 times the traffic
on your network, and billed your client once.
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