I am at work, we have cisco routers.... The messages I received were "This site has exceeded it's bandwidth" OR "The Real Server has reached maximum thread count"
~~ Stephenie > |-----Original Message----- > |From: Jochem van Dieten [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > |Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 4:30 PM > |To: CF-Community > |Subject: Re: Live space shuttle launch > | > | > |Stephenie Hamilton wrote: > |> It wasn't my isp...it was the broadcasting servers that > |were full... > | > |The multicast servers were not full. They are never full, > |because the > |multicast protocols are designed not scale indefinitely. > |They do that by > |sending out one stream in such a way that routers and switches that > |support multicast can duplicate that stream for the required > |amount of > |recipients. We have done tests were litterally hundreds of clients > |received a full MPEG-1 stream (1.5 Mbps, VHS quality) each, > |while the > |server was just a normal PC with a miserable 10 Mbit NIC. > | > |The problem is that all the equipment between the sending and the > |receiving parties has to support multicast. All the big boys > |(Cisco, HP, > |Juniper, Foundry, RedBack etc.) do support it, but despite > |that very few > |ISP's enable it. And that is why you need to complain :) > | > |Jochem > | > | ______________________________________________________________________ This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-community@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
