All things related to multicast

[Bill Owens <>]

On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 08:49:42PM -0700, Toerless Eckert wrote:
>   
>  c) In general we recommend not to enable SAP, so i am very interested
>     to get a reinforcement about how useful this command still is
>     to common user practices ;-)) After all: 

We turned off the command years ago, when the first problems showed up. Have 
never turned it back on, and have never missed it. I have always been in the 
habit of troubleshooting multicast problems using specific sources and 
groups. IMO, SAP itself is of only very limited use, and getting less useful 
all the time. 

It would be interesting to write a script to listen to SAP traffic and join 
the announced groups to see which ones actually carry traffic; I'd guess 
around half. And on top of that, the majority of 'interesting' multicast 
traffic (from my perspective) is not announced by SAP. . .

Bill.