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From: Ted Dunning <ted.dunning@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2010 15:03:37 -0800
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Subject: Re: network requirements
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Your network admin is correct.  Multicast often doesn't work.

ZK does not use multicast at the network level.  Where events or
notifications must go to many places (that SOUNDS like multicast, I know) it
uses very standard TCP connections.

For almost any known modern network, ZK should be just fine.  Unless you are
running massive numbers of operations through ZK and you are only using a
dial-up connection, you should be fine.

On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Martin Waite <waite.134@googlemail.com>wrote:

>
> Our network admin has baffled me with all the reasons that multicast might
> not work in our environment, and then I realised that I do not know what
> network support Zookeeper requires.
>

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