I have the following situation:
Local network environment with a single server that frequently sends
messages to all clients. Same message to all clients. There are about 20-40
clients. Messages are of various length, up to about 1000 bytes, but an
average of about 200 bytes, and occur about once per second. I was thinking
of implementing this using UDP multicast. Would that be more efficient that
TCP? Also would it generate less network traffic ?
Also I need clients to send messages to a group of clients. Destination
clients are predefined so they could join a multicast group.
In theory UDP is not guaranteed to deliver, but I understand that in reality
in a local network of adequate bandwidth it is 100% safe. Is that correct ?
Any suggestions are welcome.
Regards,
Danny
