Re: Why GNU Mach is so different?

[Thomas Bushnell, BSG]

Farid Hajji <farid.hajji@ob.kamp.net> writes:

> Hmmm... I use multicasting on *BSD boxes very heavily since years
> and it works flawlessly. Cisco used to have some bugs in their PIM
> Sparse tree pruning implementation, but they fixed that approx. 9
> months ago. I used multicasting accross the public Internet without
> problems (but alas not so intensively).

What's uncertain is the availability of good multicast routing to any
random location on the internet.  

> Please tell us more about collectives. That is a very hot topic!

It's more "I wonder how XXX might work", and then if I've thought
about it, I'm happy to set it down.  But I need more specific
prompting to know what to say.