[lvs-users] IPVS: Error connecting to the multicast address

Joseph Mack NA3T jmack at wm7d.net
Tue Jul 8 20:23:24 BST 2008


On Tue, 8 Jul 2008, Geoff Harrison wrote:

>> Or the switch has been configured to block multicast traffic.
>
> If it's between two machines... why use multicast when unicast works
> just as well? :)

in case you do want to know and aren't being facetious...

At the time, there were some people who disagreed with the
implementation.

One of the requirements was that any number of directors 
could participate. However as it turns out, in practice 
people only use 2.

Joe

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