[OT, Q] Architecture for Message Broadcasting

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Wed Jul 4 09:56:57 UTC 2007


On Jul 4, 2007, at 3:13 , Joshua Gargus wrote:

> Various versions of Croquet have used UDP broadcast for LAN  
> discovery.  I haven't heard of anyone doing IP multicast in Squeak;  
> as others have noted, support for IP multicast is not widespread on  
> the internet at large.

That might change with more widespread adoption of IPv6. We do have  
an IPv6 implementation for Unix (the OLPC mesh will be IPv6), other  
platforms will surely follow.

- Bert -





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