Thanks Jens & Marc for the replys.
I ran the mDND tool, and sent on the results
to our network admin - I wouldn't have considered it ass
busy traffic - it one 5 minuites test period 24 hosts sent 114 packets
and in another, 42 hosts sent 122 packets. Mostly DAAP, MacOSXDupSuppress,
workstation operations.
Practically all the machines here are on Jaguar - no site llicense (yet)
for panther.
Tim
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IT Analyst MITC Project
Learning Technology Unit
Computer Centre
University College Cork
> ----------
> From: Jens Alfke
> Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 7:03 PM
> To: O'Donovan, Tim
> Cc: 'email@hidden'
> Subject: Re: Rendezvous Traffic
>
>
> On Feb 23, 2004, at 7:48 PM, Marc Krochmal wrote (in reply to Tim
> O'Donovan):
>
> >> 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?
>
> Specifically, Panther (10.3) has a lot of optimizations in
> mDNSResponder that greatly reduce mDNS traffic.
>
> Also, you didn't say whether anyone uses iChat, but there are also
> optimizations in iChat AV.
>
> >> He reckons its for ad hoc networks and and not Enterprise
> >> type LANs like ours. (about 3000 hosts, with approx 400 Macs)
>
> We have many subnets of that size at Apple, and as far as I know mDNS
> traffic has not been a problem since the transition to Panther.
>
> --Jens
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