All things related to multicast

[John Haskins <>]

On 5/17/2006 08:38, Bill Owens wrote:
> Anybody know what these hosts have in common? [...] The names suggest
> something about SAN, and they all have the string 'Opus' at the
> beginning of each packet. Google is less than helpful, and I don't
> recall seeing this one running around before. Ethereal doesn't know
> how to parse it, which is odd considering that Ethereal knows how to
> parse quite a few protocols that I've never even heard of ;) Any
> guesses?

The one here is a Snap Appliance NAS (http://www.snapsolutions.com).
Docs mention only 'If any of your Snap Servers are on a a different
subnet or the network does not support multicast broadcasts, S2Sv2
cannot auto-discover these servers'. We've been looking for the knob to
turn that off.  I suppose the group needs an addition to the MSDP SA ACL.

-john