In a message written on Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 09:33:51PM -0400, John Fraizer wrote:
One of your clients is a mcast sender. You bill him/her for the traffic on their port.
Five of your clients are mcast receivers. You bill them for the traffic on their respective ports.
Worst(best?) case scenerio: The sender and the 5 receivers are all on your network. You get to bill all six of them.
Works fine.
If the sender is outside of your network and you have to deliver the mcast to 5 different points on your network to your 5 mcast receiver clients, you only see the mcast enter your network ONE TIME. You STILL get to bill your 5 mcast receiver clients for the traffic on their ports and you only have to INGRESS one copy of it to distribute to your 5 clients.
Works fine.
So, what is the problem?
You have a multicast sender on your network, and the 5 clients are on 5 different peer networks. You just carried 5 times the traffic on your network, and billed your client once. -- Leo Bicknell - bicknell@ufp.org - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ Read TMBG List - tmbg-list-request@tmbg.org, www.tmbg.org