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- From: peter@anl433.uucp (Peter Resele)
- Subject: Point-to-multipoint protocol wanted
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.182922.7789@news.tu-graz.ac.at>
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- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 92 18:29:22 GMT
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- Hi there,
-
- Does anybody know a network protocol that supports point-to-multipoint
- communications? (i.e. multicast). As far as I know TCP/IP it does not
- support this. If you want to send some information to n destinations, you
- have to open one connection for each of them. How about other protocols?
- (SNA, DECnet, Novell, ...) Are there any experimental protocols, de-facto
- standards etc. for this task? It seems very strange to me that one never
- hears about this issue, for e.g. satellites are a natural broadcast medium.
-
-
- Thank you very much for your responses
-
- Please e-mail to: peter@piassun1.joanneum.ac.at
- I will summarize for the net.
-
- Peter
-