Riaan van Niekerk wrote: > Is there any reason or advantage to use multicast over broadcast, which > offsets the complexity of multicast (relative to broadcast), e.g more > control, less traffic, others? Generally multicast behaves the same as broadcast. The only time you would need multicast is if your nodes are on different subnets - in which case you would also have to make sure the router had sufficiently low latencies to support clustering over it. -- patrick -- Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster