Re: packet forwarding using MAC multicast

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Hi,
  What I think is that there are no such thing as MAC multicast, correct me if I am wrong , thanks. I think when MAC address of a packet with a multicast address is sent to a physical subnet, it should be FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF , ie. for all to receive.

Tace

On Thu, 15 May 2003 16:58:01  
 Ronghua Zhang wrote:
>I want to implement packet forwarding using MAC multicast. Basically, what
>I want to acheive is the following: a frontend machine accept packets from
>client side and forwards the packets to more than one backend machines.
>The easiest way is simply forwarding packet once for each backend. But
>this will consume too much bandwidth, that's why I resort to multicast.
>But I have no idea how to let the MAC layer send a packet to a multicast
>address, Anybody can shed some light on this? Thanks.
>
>ronghua
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