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

[Ti Leggett]

Just so you know. I've run several conferences wireless and I purposely
turn off multicast and igmp. I just drop it on the floor. I wouldn't be
surprised if they did the same thing there.

On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 09:54, Richard Naylor wrote:
> 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
> 
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