From owner-freebsd-multimedia Thu Sep 16 18:43:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7DE114CA9 for ; Thu, 16 Sep 1999 18:43:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (doconnor@cain [203.38.152.97]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA21918; Fri, 17 Sep 1999 11:13:30 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3.1 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="_=XFMail.1.3.1.p0.FreeBSD:990917111330:6599=_"; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature" In-Reply-To: <199909162238.PAA05609@rah.star-gate.com> Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 11:13:30 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Amancio Hasty Subject: Re: Dinosaur ? Unicast : Multicast ;-) Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, "Louis A. Mamakos" , lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org This message is in MIME format --_=XFMail.1.3.1.p0.FreeBSD:990917111330:6599=_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On 16-Sep-99 Amancio Hasty wrote: > You are right until the last mile-hop issue gets resolved is > going to be tough for the unicast people 8) But multicast doesn't solve the 'last mile-hop problem'.. It doesn't affect it at all... Multicast only saves bandwidth for the service provider. (and their service provider) How do you charge for multicast though? :) (And I'm sure an ISP would just love you not paying your back channel tariffs if they gave you multicast and you ran a server) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum --_=XFMail.1.3.1.p0.FreeBSD:990917111330:6599=_ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- Version: 2.6.3ia iQCUAwUBN+GcwVbYW/HEoF9pAQGjDgP3fSpPD9BNFa6WrB7K/YsqGixxRSTsePKR ZqNxVDUeHBduHDk3KXmwOlFW6armOU5ECeOJ4VoHrzzVsQDYnjyRhHUSOU/XTO0f M2GvqqYnpLDiz0STNsmo7DC2EpoNizl5JD/zh+IXMwSDOAoHnUjAKBxed9ISSYPQ UJHCzxUqFQ== =muMF -----END PGP MESSAGE----- --_=XFMail.1.3.1.p0.FreeBSD:990917111330:6599=_-- End of MIME message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message