[AG-TECH] RAT not starting up in AG 2.3 on Win XP

[Eric Olson]

Hi Wesley,
Maybe you've checked this, but often rat not starting is a symptom of no 
multicast available or a firewall blocking multicast.

You could try unicast only and see if it helps by: turning off audio in 
the menu before going to a venue, then going to a venue and switching to 
unicast (assuming there is a bridge available), and finally turning on 
audio again.  If this unicast method works, then multicast connectivity is 
likely the problem -- although I'm not sure if that helps test firewall 
issues or not.

Eric

On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, Wesley Skoczen wrote:

> This is AG 2.3 installation on Laptop Gateway M675, with Windows XP Home 
> edition.
> AG 2.3 runs almost normally, but with one exception RAT program is not 
> showing up.
> In Windows Task Manager rat, ratmedia and ratui are listed but RAT 
> window is not showing up on the desktop.
> 
> When I run RAT for the first time after fresh restart from the command 
> line (i.e.: rat 224.2.211.167/16964) it opens a new window.
> When I close the RAT window I can't start RAT anymore. Windows Task 
> Manager shows that ratmedia is running.
> I cannot end this process in any way other then by restarting Windows.
> In fact each time I start rat, it adds extra rat, ratmedia and ratui 
> processes,
> I can end rat and ratui but it is not possible to end ratmedia process.
> I have also installed rat-4.2.24-ipv6-win2k and it is showing the same 
> behavior, as version included in AG Toolkit.
> 
> Any help will be appreciated,
> Thank You
>     Wesley
> 
> 
> Wesley Skoczen
> tel. 905 845 9430 x8704
> 
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