What is multicast address in Clustering? Why do we need it?

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What is multicast address in Clustering? Why do we need it?..

Answer / sriram

In computer networking a multicast address is an identifier for a group of hosts that have joined a multicast group.

The multicast address used by cluster members to communicate with each other.

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What is multicast address in Clustering? Why do we need it?..

Answer / ram

An address that can be used send by message same host
address but in different net work address that address can
be refered as multicastcast address.
Multicast address range:224.0.0.0 to 239.255.255.255
for example there are 5 managed servers in aclusters the
each managed server will communicate with the help of multi
cast address.after every 10 seconds heart beat checks
another are live or not if it is live it says i am live or
else no response. then the conclusion is that perticular
managed server is not live.

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What is multicast address in Clustering? Why do we need it?..

Answer / sush

In multicast all the cluster members will have the same IP address

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