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

[Tom Coffin]

this is where bridging and as insors has tweaked
their services to offer limited bandwidth connections
can be very important


At 09:47 AM 10/31/2003 -0600, Ti Leggett wrote:
   >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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