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At 10:21 PM 3/29/2001 -0700, Don Morton wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite cite>So - is this somewhat "normal"
behaviour? </blockquote><br>
Well, unfortunately, yes, when multicast is broken in a weird way.<br>
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<blockquote type=cite cite>Is there anything we could<br>
have done to rectify the situation? </blockquote><br>
Snagging the network guy was the right thing to do. Snagging Bill
Nickless would have been good too, since he may have been able to see
some weirdness in the router state. The periodicity of the dropouts may
be a clue; problems in mcast between network boundaries can show up that
way as protocol timers go off and te like.<br>
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<blockquote type=cite cite> In some cases it was quite<br>
humourous - </blockquote><br>
Ah, you've got a good attitude for this :-).<br>
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