[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#13245) Catalyst 6500 crashes after several users j
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On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, Tamara, Enrique wrote:
> I'd like to report a problem we have detected when playing Freeciv in
> network mode (several clients playing with a server). The switch which
> connects all of the users is a Cisco Catalyst 6500 and it crashes
> everytime we play the game. We also reported this problem to Cisco TAC,
> but they state this is a normal problem due to the fact that the game
> uses a reserved multicast address (0100.5e00.0001) and traffic is
> directly forwarded to the Catalyst CPU. They say that excessive
> multicast traffic to reserved multicast addresses can easily make the
> switch crash.
I found some info here:
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/105/mcastguide0.html
It seems the use of 225.0.0.1 as default multicast group is bad, and we
should instead of 225.1.1.1.
- Per
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