All things related to multicast

[Marshall Eubanks <>]

On Feb 21, 2008, at 5:04 PM, Frank Fulchiero wrote:

> Alan, Thanks for the consolation.
> I must say I will have my tail between my legs when I go home  
> today...and then take two aspirins.
>
> Just a dumb question, not that I plan on touching miniSAPserver for  
> a while again, but when you remove "ip sap listen" from a router,  
> does that mean that the clients will not see SAPs?

No, it just means that the router is not listening to SAP. This is  
really a blast from the very distant pass, and
was done for historical reasons dating back to the DVMRP days.  
Routers shouldn't listen to groups, applications should. Routers  
should route.

Regards
Marshall

> And if they can be so disruptive to create, what is their future?
>
> They may be obsolete but they are sure handy for clients 'channel- 
> surfing' with VLC, and there does not appear to be anything else on  
> the horizon, though I did see a reference to SDP Next Generation  
> (SDPng) somewhere.
>
> Humbly,
> Frank Fulchiero
> Digital Media Specialist
> Connecticut College
>
>
> On Feb 21, 2008, at 4:04 PM, Alan Crosswell wrote:
>
> > Frank Fulchiero wrote:
> > ...
> > > My sincerest apologies, I did not thing it was possible to create so
> > > much havoc with a little free program.
> >
> > It's amazing the power of multicast to really screw things up:-)   
> > Don't
> > worry about it Frank.  If nothing else, you caused 3 new people to
> > subscribe to this list and got a bunch of people to finally remove  
> > that
> > "ip sap listen" from their routers (including here, apparently,  
> > where I
> > thought it had already been done).
> > /a