[AG-TECH] rat not displaying

[Colin Perkins]

On 13 Jan 2005, at 22:51, Cindy Sievers wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I am trying to help a colleague in Isreal set up a pig node.  He is 
> running windows xp sp1, has no multicast. He has AGtk2.3 installed and 
> it is working ok except that rat doesn't display on his machine.  He 
> has the audio service enabled, has a headset plugged into the 
> integrated audio on his hp machine, and the rat.exe, ratui.exe, and 
> ratmedia.exe all show up as processes running on his task manager.  
> But the rat tool just doesn't display on his machine.  He also has his 
> windows firewall turned off.
> He can use the unicast bridge to enter a venue, he can transmit and 
> receive video fine.
> Am I missing something here?  If it were a port issue, the rat tool 
> would still at least be displayed, wouldn't it?

No. The different parts of rat use host-local multicast as an 
interprocess communication mechanism. You get exactly these symptoms if 
multicast is either not enabled on the network interface rat uses, or 
blocked by your host firewall.

Colin