All things related to multicast

[Alan Crosswell <>]

> I've added the following to the list of multicast traffic & MSDP SAs I 
> whack:
>    224.77.0.0/16
>    226.77.0.0/16
> I implemented it as one rule:
>    224.77.0.0 2.0.255.255
> 
> See "http://service2.symantec.com/SUPPORT/ghost.nsf/docid/1999033015222425";
> for their use.
> 
> Blocking /16s is admittedly a bit dangerous looking ahead, but it seems OK
> for now.  YMMV.  Comments are welcome.
> 
> By the way, has anybody yelled at Norton/Symantec about using arbitrarily
> chosen multicast address space?  This makes 2 /16s & a /32 of global space
> which I'm aware are used by them for a decidedly local application.  Argh!
> 
> ________________________________________________________________________
> Jay Ford, Network Engineering Group, Information Technology Services
> University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242
> email: 
> ,
>  phone: 319-335-5555, fax: 319-335-5505
> 

OK, so I flamed them:

http://servicenews.symantec.com/cgi-bin/displayArticle.cgi?group=symantec.support.network.ghost75.general&;article=%%3E&product=symghost&mini_version=symghost_75&tpre=ent

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