[AG-TECH] its friday.........and we failed.....

[Richard Naylor]

folks

being friday and close to "beer o'clock" I thought I'd share what we've 
almost achieved this afternoon and also solicit some help.

One of the projects here at CityLink is CafeNet (www.cafenet.co.nz). If you 
know what wifi hot spots are, well Cafenet is a City wide hot spot. yes we 
have hundreds of wireless access points around the city with a central 
authentication/billing engine and linked with our fiber network. You can 
roam with your ipaq, laptop etc or just stop (almost) anywhere and get a 
decent net connection. Its based on 802.11g 54mbps wireless. (and those 
nice Cisco wireless phones are cool - they work well as you walk around the 
city. VoIP over WIFI)

Well Carl, who I work with is the project engineer and uses VPN technology 
to access the office from around the city. So - we decided to install 
ATGK-2.1.2 onto his laptop. Since we don't have certs yet we also installed 
the mbone tools (SDR, vic and rat) to test the concept. but failed. 
Somewhere something is blocking the multi cast. I'm about to go confess to 
the VPN/IT guys what we've been doing and see if theres a fix.

But think about it, we get 30-50mbps most places, so you could join in an 
AG session from your local cafe, or your car while driving along (wifi does 
hand over between APs nicely). We're also in the public library, 
Parliament, National Library, national museum etc, so it means an AG can be 
mobile. think about it.......

Now where I need help is that of the 4 AG set ups, rat only seems to work 
on 2. All machines are winXP and rat seems to start, but there is no gui 
window (it appears in the task list). this is the same for both the AG rat 
and the mbone tools rat. Any ideas ?

tks - rich