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Date:      Thu, 3 Aug 2000 15:09:40 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
Cc:        freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Max data queued for UDP
Message-ID:  <200008031909.PAA24064@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200008031902.MAA42267@bubba.whistle.com>
References:  <200008030354.XAA21343@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <200008031902.MAA42267@bubba.whistle.com>

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<<On Thu, 3 Aug 2000 12:02:40 -0700 (PDT), Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> said:

> What is special about multicast that would be particularly problematic?

Because you are potentially making many (manual) copies of multicast
packets which were previously copied-by-reference.

-GAWollman

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