On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 03:08:10AM -0400, David B Harris wrote: > On Mon, 19 Aug 2002 07:50:43 +0100 > Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> wrote: > > > Hubs are much less bandwidth-intensive than leaf nodes, because they > > > don't have to repeat a message once for each user that receives the > > > message (think channels). Leaf nodes will end up replicating a lot > > > of messages and sending them out, but it's pretty unavoidable at the > > > moment. > > > > It's unavoidable, period. Those clients need to receive the data. > > I get surprised every day :) I'll not rule something out. IP > multicasting may take off. I think I'm going to quote Adam Heath here: HAHAHAHAHA. No. ._________. _|asuffield|_ <-- ircd hat Suffice it to say that IP multicasting is a useless pile of tripe. [It's not necessary, either. More on that in a few months.] -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | Dept. of Computing, `. `' | Imperial College, `- -><- | London, UK
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