[AG-TECH] Unable to connect or load bridge information.

[Jason Bell]

G'day Richard and all

The problem with having the Venue Client hang is related to people
running Unicast bridges behind firewalls.  

My understanding is that when the Venue Client first starts, it tries to
contact the entire known list of bridges that have been listed with the
bridge registry.  If a unicast bridge is running behind a firewall, when
someone starts their Venue Client, it tries to contact all of the
bridges and in turn practically sits there and waits for a response from
a "unreachable" bridge, in which waits for a "time out" before
proceeding.

Therefore, I would kindly suggest that if you are trying to run a AG 3
Unicast bridge and you are aware it is behind a firewall, to stop
running it, as it affecting the start up of everyone's Venue Client.

This is a know bug and we are currently investigating ways on how to fix
it.

Cheers,
Jason.

P.S. If your system appears to hang, which mine is currently doing, wait
a while (5 - 10 minutes) and the Venue Client will start.


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov [mailto:owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov] On
Behalf Of Richard Lindstrom
Sent: Thursday, 7 September 2006 6:57 AM
Cc: ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
Subject: RE: [AG-TECH] Unable to connect or load bridge information.

And I thought it was just me! Also, gets as far as the "loading bridges"
then hangs. Worked Friday, then "Poof!"


Richard W. Lindstrom, MA
Director of Academic Computing
Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science
1731 E. 120th St.
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Tel: (323) 563-5832
Fax: (323) 357-3650
rilindst at cdrewu.edu

"I give the devil benefit of law for my own safety's sake"

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov [mailto:owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov]On
Behalf Of gurcharan khanna
Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 12:32 PM
To: Jimmy Miklavcic
Cc: ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
Subject: Re: [AG-TECH] Unable to connect or load bridge information.


Hi,

I just installed AG 3.0.2 on a new XP machine and when i try to start
the
venue client, it hangs at the first popup box, saying "loading bridges".
is that related to jimmy's problem below?

-gurcharan

Jimmy Miklavcic wrote:
> At startup of AGTK-3.0.2 in Windows XP, I am uanble to load and
connect 
> to the bridges. It worked last friday. Any ideas?
> Right now in the Bridges drop down menu, there is nothing listed.
> 
> Jimmy
> 
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