All things related to multicast

["Richard Mavrogeanes" <>]

Altiris (http://www.altiris.com/products/), like many products, use multicast 
but they expect to use it locally, I think.
 
I should think a non-GLOP address might be a candidate for filtering, at 
least from I2.
 
 
 

        -----Original Message----- 
        From: William F. Maton 
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        Sent: Thu 5/13/2004 7:05 PM 
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        Cc: 
        Subject: multicast address (mis)use or just another bizarro?
        
        


        Greetings, 

                I remember there was a topic at some point on the use of 
certain 
        multicast addresses by certain vendors for their respective 
applications 
        without any real thought to consulting anyone first. 

                Well, I started getting annoyed at my little Compaq for 
taking so 
        long to compile ... some stuff.  Anyways, I went in seek, locate and 
        exterminate mode at lo-and-behold, I found an annoying little icon on 
my 
        Windows XP box calling itself Altiris.  (Beats me.) 

                It seems that the Altiris client has been programmed by 
default 
        (but can be changed) to use a multicast address, 225.1.2.3.  Is this 
one a 
        candidate for MSDP filtering? 

        wfms