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Re: Multicast Traffic on Backbones


From: Michael Whisenant <mwhisen () foreigner whisenant net>
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 07:45:20 -0500 (CDT)


On Sun, 10 Jun 2001, Joshua Goodall wrote:

many network engineers glaze over at the mention of multicast. it
takes some serious grey matter work to fathom the entire subject.

        I do not know that I would agree on that aspect, but if they did then
it would be the result that multicast works in reverse of unicast. If the same
person were to learn multicast then they just might learn better the
fundamentals of unicast as well.



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