Thanks Fred, your explanation is very clear.
Lesly Reimer, Fred wrote: > > IP Directed Broadcast - used to send a directed broadcast packet, or a > packet to a whole remote subnet. For instance, say you have > your > workstation management software on subnet 10.1.1.0/24, and you > have three > remote subnets 10.1.2.0/24, 10.1.3.0/24, and 10.1.4.0/24. The > workstations > have client software on them, so that the management software > can poll for > configuration changes, push registry entries, etc. You could > have all of > the clients poll the server, but you may want to "push" a > change also. How > could you do this? Well, you could ping all ~ 768 IP addresses > to find each > client, or you could send a directed broadcast to each of the > three subnets, > 10.1.2.255, 10.1.3.255, and 10.1.4.255, and all workstations > would receive > it (and hopefully reply). > > IP mroute cache - well, that would be the multicast routing > table cache, > just like the ip-route-cache unicast cache. Kind of like fast > switching for > multicast traffic... > > HTH, > > Fred Reimer - CCNA > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Iwan Hoogendoorn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2003 9:25 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: what are ip directed-broadcast and ip mroute-cache > [7:73800] > > Can someone explain me what this is for and what is does? > > > ip directed-broadcast > ip mroute-cache > > Thank You > > Iwan **Please support GroupStudy by purchasing from the GroupStudy Store: http://shop.groupstudy.com FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=73821&t=73808 -------------------------------------------------- **Please support GroupStudy by purchasing from the GroupStudy Store: http://shop.groupstudy.com FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html