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

[Robert Olson]

At 07:51 AM 10/31/2003, Colin Perkins wrote:
>On Friday, Oct 31, 2003, at 02:54 Europe/London, Richard Naylor wrote:
>...
>>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 ?
>
>Rat uses host-local multicast as an inter-process communication mechanism 
>between the user-interface and media engine. If you see the media engine 
>running but not the UI, it's almost certainly a problem with the local 
>multicast.
>
>Check your local firewall (UDP port 47000) or multicast routing table.

XP's Internet Connection Firewall does indeed make rat not work (both 
locally, in bringing up the app, and functionally, in blocking the incoming 
audio traffic). (I'm planning on adding code for 2.1.3 that'll detect the 
presence of XP's firewall when you start up the Venues client..)

--bob