All things related to multicast

[debbie fligor <>]

SE is a generic for Sales Engineer.  If you don't have a local Apple  
Rep. and SE assigned to your campus, you can use this method:

> The best thing to do is to file a new bug report at http://bugreport.apple.com 
> .  It will be set as a duplicate, but that becomes really obvious in  
> the bug report.

explain what you want and why you need it.

thanks,
-debbie


On Jun 13, 2008, at 5:57, Tim Chown wrote:

> 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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-debbie
Debbie Fligor, n9dn       Network Engineer, CITES, Univ. of Il
email: 

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