[mythtv-users] Way out idea on watching same thing inmultiplerooms

Eric Sharkey eric at lisaneric.org
Wed Jan 6 22:13:17 UTC 2010


On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Gareth Glaccum
<gareth.glaccum at btopenworld.com> wrote:
> The problem is, that as standard, most switches do not decode/ perform
> multicast snooping. This means that they do not listen for multicast joins
> and leaves, and instead broadcast multicast communications to all ports.
> This is a major waste of bandwidth.

That doesn't sound so bad to me.  Certainly not for the use case being
discussed here.  Most of that "wasted" bandwidth wasn't going to be
used anyway.  The alternative of using unicast sounds much worse.

Eric


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