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Ben Laurie (ben@algroup.co.uk)
Thu, 27 Aug 1998 10:39:24 +0100
Chris Wedgwood wrote:
>
> On Wed, Aug 19, 1998 at 06:34:30PM +0100, Mok-Kong Shen wrote:
>
> > Simply a question from an ignorant: Can TCP do a braodcast?
>
> Nope.
>
> If you want funky multicast stream stuff (al la multicast news) you
> have to implement your own stack using UDP or some other kind of
> datagram and each receiver has to keep track of drop-outs whatever
> and send re-requests to the sender.
There are actually some efforts to standardise reliable multicasts, I'm
told - which is a good thing - having implemented them myself years ago,
I know they're a bitch to get right (in terms of not killing the network
in the process).
I don't have the references to hand, but if anyone cares (and no-one
else has them) I'll dig 'em out.
Cheers,
Ben.
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