[Cialug] Multicast, anyone?

[L. V. Lammert]

At 10:33 AM 10/25/2010, you wrote:
>Unless you are on a public network you should be able to use an 
>administratively scoped address:
>
>Multicast Address BLocks Assigned by IANA (from RFC 3171).
>Start Address           Stop Address            CIDR 
>Notation                   Name
>224.0.0.0               224.0.0.255             224.0.0/24 
>            Local Network Control Block
>224.0.1.0               224.0.1.255             224.0.1/24 
>            Internetwork Control Block
>224.0.2.0               224.0.255.0             - 
>            AD-HOC Block
>224.1.0.0               224.1.255.255           224.1/16 
>            ST Multicast Groups
>224.2.0.0               224.2.255.255           224.2/16 
>            SSDP/SAP Block
>224.252.0.0             224.255.255.255         - 
>            DIS Transient Block
>225.0.0.0               231.255.255.255         - 
>            RESERVED
>232.0.0.0               232.255.255.255         232/8 
>            Source Specific Multicast (SSM) Block
>233.0.0.0               233.255.255.255         233/8 
>            GLOP Block
>234.0.0.0               238.255.255.255         - 
>            RESERVED
>239.0.0.0               239.255.255.255         239/8 
>            Administratively Scoped Block

This will be a public network, however, .. all of the clients will be 
accessing from their own sites - that's the problem. It sounds like 
we must acquire a multicast IP?

         Lee