Chang wrote:
% what services use multicasting? I believe watching realmedia movie or
% listenging to midi/mp3 online wouldn't use it, right? ftp, http, ssh,
% nntp, ... typical internet services would not use it.
I'm no expert, but I'm not aware of any of the standard services that
require multicasting, although I believe that a NIC's promiscuous mode
uses the multicast address (224.0.0.1). In any event, it should be
simple to use iptables to drop, reject, or deny multicast packets.
Kurt
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