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		IggleSniggle on July 28, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: BlazingMQ: High-performance open source message qu... Well that certainly sent me down a rabbit hole. Seems like UDP Multicast is really IP Multicast. I'd love to play with this

pclmulqdq on July 28, 2023 [–]

Yes, UDP on top of IP multicast - UDP is a pretty thin layer on top of IP in general, and the IP protocol is deceptively powerful. You just can't run protocols like TCP over IP multicast.

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