Multicast address allocation service

[Ivan R. Judson]

Right, that's a matter of configuring the service.

--Ivan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Olson [mailto:olson at mcs.anl.gov]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 7:34 AM
> To: judson at mcs.anl.gov; ag-dev at mcs.anl.gov
> Subject: Re: Multicast address allocation service
>
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by this ...
>
> the venue shouldn't know if the allocator is acting randomly
> or out of a pool?
>
> At 12:04 AM 12/11/2002 -0600, Ivan R. Judson wrote:
> >It's probably a better idea to have venues ask for addresses through
> >some single "get new address" method rather than expose via the name
> >whether they are asking for a random or range address. The
> venue should
> >never care, it's just an address.
>
>