Why is Multicast Preferred over Broadcast or Unicast Mode in Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability Clusters?

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Issue

  • What are the benefits of using multicast for cluster communication?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (High Availability)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (Clustering)

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