On Fri, 14 May 2010 20:01:35 -0700, Darren New wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> Not really, a party line is many-to-many,
> 
> Er, not really, no. A party line is one switch to many phones.
> 
>> The routers act as repeaters, but still operate a multicast "domain"
>> (if you will) within their local network, as long as there's a client
>> that has registered with the router to listen in on the multicast.
> 
> Yes, I know how it works. Now we're just arguing over analogies.

We tend to do that. ;-)

> My point is that it's *not* like a radio broadcast. It's point-to-point
> between routers. The only place you're saving bandwidth is on subnets.

Which is kinda the important point.

Jim

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