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  • From: Tim Chown <>
  • To: wg-multicast List <>
  • Subject: Re: IGMPv3 on Macs
  • Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:57:29 +0100

I have absolutely no idea who my Apple SE is, or even what one is.
To me, an Apple SE is a historic pre-Unix Apple device :)

Is there some other path into Apple that we can register feature
requests through? And why it's important to us?

Our university wants to standardise on Windows desktops. It's hard to
come up with counter arguments when Apple shoots themselves in the foot
like this.

Tim

On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 11:34:39AM -0400, Marshall Eubanks wrote:
> For bonus points, tell them that you want to use Quicktime with SSM.
>
> Regards
> Marshall
>
> On May 28, 2008, at 11:21 AM, debbie fligor wrote:
>
> >In discussion with my Apple SE this morning, it looks like IGMPv3
> >may not even be in the next major OS release (10.6 I assume) -- the
> >main reason he can figure out looking at the bug report he filed for
> >me is that in the multiple years that bug has been open, only 2 or 3
> >people have chimed in that it was important for them.
> >
> >Apparently which things like this get implemented is often
> >determined by user request/industry need. So if you would like to
> >see it, contact your Apple SE and tell them you want it and why you
> >need it and how important it is for you.
> >
> >Even if I didn't want to test switches with Macs, if we want to go
> >to IGMPv3 on our networks, we need all the clients on a given net
> >playing with the same IGMP level, unless I misunderstand how the
> >backwards compatibility works.
> >
> >
> >-----
> >-debbie
> >Debbie Fligor, n9dn Network Engineer, CITES, Univ. of Il
> >email:
> >
> > <http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/fligor>
> > "My turn." -River Tam
> >
> >
> >
> >
>

--
Tim





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