From 17d76be42b7e9d11cde435660f9364d702607f74 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: manu Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 07:15:52 +0000 Subject: As pointed out by Johnatan Stone, this tool needs a strong warning about being unsuitable for internet use. --- mbone/mdd/DESCR | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) (limited to 'mbone') 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. -- cgit v1.2.3