[AG-TECH] beacon, vtc, multicast???

[Osland, CD (Chris)]

Yes, someone else noted that the MUD used 7777 and so people who
in the past had blocked or throttled Napster were now doing the
same to the MUD.  No idea why the tool writers chose the same -
because it was quick to type, 8888 was already in use, and 6666
has connotations?

Chris

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gurcharan.S.Khanna at Dartmouth.EDU
> [mailto:Gurcharan.S.Khanna at Dartmouth.EDU]
> Sent: 08 August 2003 15:01
> To: fs at wpi.edu
> Cc: cifer_ng at yahoo.com.sg; ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
> Subject: Re: [AG-TECH] beacon, vtc, multicast???
> 
> 
> hi,
> 
> could someone refresh my memory? doesn't  the moo run over port
> 7777 also? and wasn't that also a problem due to that port being
> blocked or squeezed because it was the napster port? (it was always
> extremely slow for us; i guess there's a proxy now or something?).
> seems like some other port number would be more useful in these
> filtered environments. why is 7777 the port of choice?
> 
> -gurcharan
> 
> --- You wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 01:06:26AM -0400, Gurcharan S. Khanna wrote:
> > hi,
> > 
> > not sure if there's a built-in tool in AG 2.0 but you can 
> download a nice
> > little utility from detective.internet2.edu called internet 
> detective.  this
> > will test for multicast connectivity, connection to the 
> Abilene network, and
> > bandwidth tests.
> 
> Note, though, that the new version of the tool runs over port 
> 7777, and so may
> get blocked by various P2P firewall rules.
> 
> -- 
> Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu
> WPI Network Engineer
> --- end of quote ---
>