[AG-TECH] Avoiding problems - Multicast groups and also unicast bridges

[Michael Groufsky]

I also am curious about this.  Is there any way of setting up an AGTK 3 
bridge behind a firewall, without causing delays for others?

-- Michael Groufsky
Assistant Hardware Engineer
HIT Lab NZ

Joseph Stone wrote:
> As a last step in getting a FC5 AGTK 3.0 Venue Server up, I have two 
> questions that deal with avoiding problems
>
> 1) How do people pick multicast addresses and ports such that they 
> don't use what someone else is using already?  It looks like the tool 
> will dynamically pick addresses / ports or give an option to pick 
> static ones, something I think we prefer to do.  Is this a good thing 
> to do?
>
> 2) I want my unicast bridge to be used only by people who VPN into my 
> server (I think).  If it is behind a firewall, I know that I'll 
> contribute to the long delays AGTK 3.0 Client users will experience.  
> Can I tell the bridge to not let anyone know that it exists (except 
> those joining my venue, of course)?
>
> Sorry if this has been answered in FAQs or mailing list, I've tried to 
> find this information for sometime.  If it is there, point me towards 
> it.  I'll develop better search techniques based on the pointer.
>
> Joe
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> Joseph Stone
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