On 6 Feb 2006, Antenore Gatta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Martin, > > > distcc uses tcp connections to carry the requests and responses, and > > multicast doesn't work with tcp, only udp. multicast udp could be good > > for checking the load of servers or seeing if they have a cached result.
> Why not? Multicast is very usefull in this situation, all the > clustered environment are using multicast to join member to the > cluster. Why not use multicast for tcp? Because as far as I know there's no specification for how it would work, and no network stack supports it. :-) -- Martin
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