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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">G'day all</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Again</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> I'm not sure if this it the right mailing list to send these comments too, but given these are issues for developers to investigate and hopefully resolve, I thought I would send it to this list.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Today</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">I</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> held th</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">e</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Asia-Pacific</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">"Monthly Meeting" in which we discussed</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">current</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> issues with the AG software. I thought I would document them</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">here</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">:</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Symbol">·<FONT FACE="Courier New"> </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Unicast Bridging seems error prone</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">o </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Some people using AG 3.0.2 under windows are complaining about not seeing any bridges listed.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">o </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">As mentioned previously, some people running bridges are causing the loading of the VenueClient to "hang" for a long t</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">ime.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">o </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Without proper testing (I cannot confirm this just yet),</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> but people running a unicast bridge behind a firewall a</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">re</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> causing</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> some</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> problems. I know personally running a bridge behind a firewall is important. Example of this is that we only have one subnet/vlan</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">that allows multicast cast... Sometimes it is useful for staff to connect to a</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">unicast bridge</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">, behind our firewall</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">,</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> which allows them to</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">connect to AG sessions.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Symbol">·<FONT FACE="Courier New"> </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">I'm getting a lot of questions from people about removing the gray boarder around certain video streams</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> (The old NTSC / PAL Issue)</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">o </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">One colleague has said that he is able to get rid of it using AG 2.4, but is unable to do</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">so</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">using 3.0.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">2 (This is under windows</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">).</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Therefore, from asking a number of my colleagues, it appears the main issues are networking (multicast / u</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">n</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">icast)</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> and the gray boarder.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">If there</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">are</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> currently any developments within this area,</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">I</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">would like to hear about them, so</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">I</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> can provide feedback to my colleagues.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Thanks very much for your time,</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Jason.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Jason Bell, B.I.T.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">B. Info. Tech. (Honours) Student</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Network Engineer</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Information Technology Division</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Central Queensland University</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">High Performance Computing Support Officer</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Central Queensland University</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">E-mail : j.bell@cqu.edu.au</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Phone : 07 4930 9229</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Patience is a virtue.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">But if I wanted Patience,</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">I would have become a Doctor.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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