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- From: fouts@exacto.dallas.sgi.com (Christopher Fouts)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: Dog, Arena, Battlezone, and Networks
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.200605.27765@odin.corp.sgi.com>
- Date: 2 Sep 92 20:06:05 GMT
- References: <32325@adm.brl.mil>
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- Organization: Silicon Graphics (Dallas, TX)
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- In article <32325@adm.brl.mil>, blbates@aero36.larc.nasa.gov (Brent L. Bates ViGYAN AAD/TAB) writes:
- |>
- |> Dog used to flood the network with broadcast messages, making it very
- |> network unfriendly. I believe that has been corrected in IRIX > 3.3. Arena
- |> seems to also flood the network in IRIX 3.3.2. Has this been corrected in
- |> IRIX > 4.0? What about this `battlezone', or what ever it is called, has it
- |> been made more network friendly too? Thanks.
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- Bz uses multicast packets and is throttled to send a maxium of 15 update
- packets a second. Each packet is around 60 or so bytes long, so the
- overall bandwidth used is relatively small. Your opinion of whether or
- not this is flooding the network may differ. :^)
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