[AG-TECH] Re: [AG-USERS] unicas question

Thomas D. Uram turam at mcs.anl.gov
Tue Jan 18 09:09:25 CST 2005


The only part of the AG that uses multicast is the media streams.  None of the shared 
applications I'm aware of uses multicast.

Tom


Jennifer Teig von Hoffman wrote:
> Hi Dio,
> 
> Dioselin Gonzalez wrote:
> 
>> Hello everybody,
>>
>> We are working on a distance learning project and we would like to use 
>> AG.  One of the concerns is we want students to be able to attend 
>> class from home, where usually we don't have multicast.   I've been 
>> reading the documentation about bridges and the unicast option in the 
>> venue client. I have tried using this option at home and connect to 
>> the Argonne bridge, but yet I can't attend meetings from home.  What 
>> am I missing?  Would anybody point me out to what it takes to use 
>> unicast ?
> 
> 
> I'm not a networking person, but my hunch is it's either a blocked 
> port(s), or your traffic is going through a NAT router (which translates 
> addresses in a way that interferes with AG).
> 
>> Another question: from what I've read, using unicast would allow users 
>> to start the media tools, but not the shared apps.  Is this correct?
> 
> 
> Depends on the shared app. I believe many shared apps use unicast natively.
> 
> - Jennifer
> 
> 




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