Differences between version 2 and predecessor to the previous major change of MultiCast.
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| Newer page: | version 2 | Last edited on Sunday, June 29, 2003 12:09:20 pm | by DanielLawson | Revert |
| Older page: | version 1 | Last edited on Sunday, June 29, 2003 12:49:06 am | by PerryLorier | Revert |
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Multicast is sending an IP packet to multiple machines at once. Compare AnyCast
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+The point of MultiCast is that if you are sending the same packet across the same link to two different destinations, it only needs to get sent once along that link. IE, at any point on a multicast-enabled network, there only needs to be one copy of the packet being sent.
