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- From: Mark.R.Valence@dartmouth.edu (Mark R. Valence)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
- Subject: Re: RTMP question
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.222457.19929@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 22:24:57 GMT
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- In article <1e605dINN44o@roche.csl.sri.com>
- dstine@cisco.com (David Stine) writes:
- >
- > Then there is the flip side of the coin: by switching the value for A-ROUTER
- > with every update, you effect a sort of "load sharing" between the routers
- > present on a cable.
-
- Actually, this does not effect load sharing necessarily. It will
- happen if the two routers are out of phase (sending RTMP broadcasts
- five seconds apart). As the routers do not negotiate the timings of
- these broadcasts, there is a likely chance that the broadcasts will be
- closer together. Let's say there are two routers A and B on a net
- (LocalTalk). If router A sends out an RTMP bcast, and then router B
- sends one out 1 second later, then router B will get 90% of the traffic
- on that net (from the non-router machines).
-
- > Which is better? I'm sure we can find arguments in favor of both.
- >
- > dsa
-