Workgroup Editor
Workgroup can be a  Simply group or a  Multicast group. Simply group is just a container. If you'll send the message to the Simply workgroup, LanTalk NET will send a personal message to the each contact that is listed in this workgorup. If some contacts are offline, LanTalk NET will keep this message and send automatically when the contacts will be online. It can take some time if you want to send the message to 50 contacts for example.
To solve the slowness problem, we have created the Multicast group. If you'll send the message to the Multicast workgroup, LanTalk NET will send the message to the workgroup IP address ( Multicast address ) only once and all contacts which are invited into this workgroup, will receive this message. No matter, if they are listed in this workgroup or not. They should have same workgorup in the own contact list only ( Invite contacts to send them information about this group ). This is very fast way to deliver the message, no matter how many contacts should receive it, 50, 500 or 5000. However, if some contacts are offline, they'll never receive this message.
Creating the Simply workgroup manually is easy...only one field are necessary - the workgroup name. Do not enable Use Multicast for group messages option for this workgroup.
Creating the Multicast workgroup manually just a bit harder... You should specify the workgroup name, IP address ( from the Multicast Range ) and Invite other users into this workgroup.
| Name |
The name that will be displayed in the Contact List. |
| Workgroup |
The name of the group to which this workgroup belongs. |
| IP |
The multicast IP address of the workgroup.
Use this option to create the workgroup for a fast broadcasting. |
| Note |
Additional information about the workgroup. |
| Use Multicast for group messages |
Enable this option if you want to create workgroup for a fast broadcasting. Provide an unique IP address ( from a Multicast range ) in the IP field. |
| Read Only |
Discard any changes for this workgroup. |
| Invite |
Use this button to invite contacts to this Multicast workgroup. Of course if this workgroup is Multicast. |
Valid multicast address range: 224.23.x.x , where x - any number starting from 0 to 255.
Please note! The address 224.23.0.7 - already assigned for all contacts in the network. In the other words, you can create Workgroup with name All contacts and address 224.23.0.7 to send the messages to all contacts which are online.
Be sure that your routers will pass LanTalk messages, they should allow multicast traffic at port 2307 between subnets, but doesn't pass this traffic to the Internet and block all traffic from the Internet to this port. |
