TCP multicast and multithreading

Question

I need to come up with clients that can multicast to other clients reliably. That implies I\'ll be using TCP to connect reliably between clients within a multicast group. Do

Answer 1

Just a thought, but does your work need to be done with a networking protocol. You might also look at implementing this with a message service, with a publish-subscribe based model.

If you do need networking, then you're going to have to deal with either lots of connections, or ensuring delivery yourself. Make very sure of your requirements before going down that road.