Dog (Flight)

[Andrew Cherenson]

In article <1368 at pc.ecn.purdue.edu> merrifie at pc.ecn.purdue.edu (Michael C Merrifield) writes:
>
>      RE: dog (flight) over NFS
		       (over ethernet, really)
>QUESTION: Is there any way to isolate the sgi's running dog on the
>          network?  In other words, how do I localize the `packet
>          storms' generated by dog so other unsuspecting machines
>          on the network are not affected?

Fixed in a future release of IRIX. By default, "dog" will use UDP/IP
multicasting instead of broadcasting. It'll still generate the same amount
of traffic but only those machines playing "dog" will receive the packets.