Hi Tim,
> I got an email from one of our network guys mentioning
> that he's noticed a growing amount of Rendezvous multicasts on
> the LAN. He reckons its for ad hoc networks and and not Enterprise
> type LANs like ours. (about 3000 hosts, with approx 400 Macs)
Can you help us calculate what you mean by "a growing amount of
Rendezvous multicasts". I've attached the mDNSNetMonitor command-line
tool that's available in Darwin. Can you please run this tool from the
command-line for two minutes during a time you think the traffic is
high, and then inform us of the final results.
Are these problems on Ethernet or Wireless?
> So he wants to disable it on the network...
>
> It isn't really used here as far as I can tell - a handful of people
> share music via iTunes, and about 20 printers are broadcasting
> their services - although I'd say nobody is actually using rendezvous
> to connect to printers.
Don't forget about iTunes for Windows which also supports Rendezvous
music sharing.
> Any thoughts? Is there any way to reduce the multicasts, so he
> won't take the drastic step of turning off the service?
What version of Mac OS X are these machines running?
Thanks.
-Marc
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