[AG-TECH] Multicast beacon questions

[Linda Winkler]

David-

At 01:37 PM 10/24/2001, David E. Bernholdt wrote:
>On Wed, 24 Oct 2001 13:12:37 -0500  Marty Hoag wrote:
> > I mean if you were receiving all 100 beacons at 10 packets/second
> > each that would be 1000 packets/second.
>
>As my networking friends point out, the current beacon approach isn't
>terribly scalable as the number of AG nodes increases (presuming a 1:1
>association with beacons). Its already enough to trigger concern with
>folks here, though maybe its just that they're not used to seeing
>any mcast traffic at all.  Has anyone thought about this?

the beacon server is being issue is being addressed.
What exactly is their concern?
lw