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[Alan Crosswell <alan@columbia.edu>]

> My Goodness yes.  I am sometime amused that I see this SAP text on networks 
> which is only the default.  I would expect users to set the SAP text(s) to 
> something meaningful and it is very easy to set (via web browser, telnet, 
> SNMP, SDK, scheduling system, etc).  
> 
> /rmavro
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan Crosswell 
> [mailto:alan@columbia.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 10:16 AM
> To: Richard Mavrogeanes
> Cc: James O. Whitlock; Lucy E. Lynch; 
> wg-multicast@internet2.edu;
> mim-devel@lists.uoregon.edu;
>  
> multicast@lists.uoregon.edu
> Subject: RE: USA WNY-HPNVI 24/7 Live Surgery at 1330 EST (fwd)
> 
> 
> Rich,
> 
> While you're in the code modifying the SAP, do you think you could allow
> the customer to set the info field instead of hardcoding "Vbrick Streaming
> Video"?
> 
> /a
> 
> >The length of the SAP is dependent on the length of the text descriptors, 
> >but currently it will always be less than or equal to 367 bytes.  We may 
> >expand this in the future to up to 512 bytes.
> > 
> >Regards,
> > 
> >rich mavrogeanes
> >
> 

You can't set the info field.  Only the session name via the Vbrick software.
For example, here's a portion of the SDP from Northwestern's CSPAN feed:

s=CSPAN via Nwstrn U.
i=VBrick Streaming Video

There's no command to set the i= field.
/a