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[Mike McBride <>]

draft-ietf-mboned-ipv4-mcast-unusable-01.txt lists Altiris among the group
of addresses that need to be filtered.

mike

On Thu, 13 May 2004, Richard Mavrogeanes wrote:

> 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 
> [mailto:]
>       Sent: Thu 5/13/2004 7:05 PM
>       To: 
> 
>       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
>
>