IP Multicast

Eric Norum eric at cls.usask.ca
Tue Aug 1 21:40:58 UTC 2000


"Smith, Gene" wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the info. Do you think broadcast, as opposed to multicast, works
> as is?
> It looks to me like it would.

Broadcast most definitely works -- that's how a system gets its IP
information from BOOTP/DHCP.  Some applications use it, too.


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