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On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Gong Wei wrote:
> The way the overall system works is that whenever there is a link state
> change on the edge switch port (connect/disconnect a pc/notebook to the
> switch port, for instance), a trap will be sent to the management server,
> which contains important info like the location of the switch, MAC address
> of the client, etc. These information will be used later to generate audit
> reports.
>
> Unfortunately currently there is no way to send certain packets to all real
> server, so unless the subsequent packets from the *client* (not the switch)
> happended to reach the real server, or else ....
Multicast does things that look like this. Would it work here?
(Lets say you could find a way to send a packet to all n real-servers,
you're also going to have to handle n replies. Presumably someone will
come up with a way of doing this and we'll all slap our foreheads and go
"Doh, that is so obvious").
Joe
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Joseph Mack mack@xxxxxxxxxxx
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