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| author | manu <manu@pkgsrc.org> | 2005-03-29 07:15:52 +0000 |
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| committer | manu <manu@pkgsrc.org> | 2005-03-29 07:15:52 +0000 |
| commit | 3e49fb38633e6776f546d4bdfcd654a15180d90c (patch) | |
| tree | 46a147910278ccf57664b3b039a840f3081da8db | |
| parent | 2923a41f1818779abb8207585a7305565f456990 (diff) | |
| download | pkgsrc-3e49fb38633e6776f546d4bdfcd654a15180d90c.tar.gz | |
As pointed out by Johnatan Stone, this tool needs a strong warning about
being unsuitable for internet use.
| -rw-r--r-- | mbone/mdd/DESCR | 6 |
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diff --git a/mbone/mdd/DESCR b/mbone/mdd/DESCR index 5793f9f81bc..899a6112096 100644 --- a/mbone/mdd/DESCR +++ b/mbone/mdd/DESCR @@ -4,3 +4,9 @@ image on all the workstations of a computer room at the same time. The protocol used is rather simple and will not make any effort to avoid flooding your network. IGMP-snooping enabled switches are advised. + +WARNING: this tool is designed to operate on a private LAN where no +congestion occurs. It has no rate limiting feature, which makes it +unsuitable for use on the Internet. Do not try to use it outside of +a private LAN, it will attempt to eat all your bandwidth to flood the +multicast group you send data to. |