Jim Henderson wrote:
>> 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.

Except even there, you're only saving bandwidth on broadcast networks, and 
on broadcast networks, everyone shares the same bandwidth, so even TCP 
packets go to everyone on the subnet.

The whole point of using multicast instead of broadcast is what it does 
between routers, not what it does on a subnet.

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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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    you literally shooting yourself in the foot.

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