All things related to multicast

[Frank Fulchiero <>]

Right.

In our software testing, I always turn off the SAP server if I am not  
around, like now. I let my network admins know I am testing the  
software. The announce matches the distribution.
Currently, our TTL is 99, and announce is every 30 seconds, and we  
would like anyone multicast in the world to get this.
But what are the recommended settings, for various situations?

It sounds like we need a "best practices" document, and put it where  
people that need it can find it.

The 30 page RFCs are nice for the tech folks, but there are in- 
between admins like me that should know (and only need to know) what  
parameters to use, or not use, in the simpler config files and GUI  
interfaces. Unfortunately, we often end up doing more than we are  
really qualified to do, as many folks in IT are spread out real thin.  
So we need better training and simple documentation. Where can we go  
for that?

Not making any excuses, just stating the situation some of us are in.

Frank Fulchiero
Digital Media Specialist
Connecticut College

On Jun 19, 2008, at 1:28 PM, 

 wrote:

> Hi,
>
> > We would like to keep using them, if possible, for our streams. Of  
> > course,
> > if SAPs are blocked by networks, they won't be much good! But  
> > there has to
> > be a way of dealing with the storms...and hopefully the SAPs that  
> > don't
> > have streams.
>
> the SAPs should have a suitable/relevant TTL and should have a scoped
> address that matches the distribution of the streams that the SAP
> announces. that said, theres far too many broken SAP servers out  
> there.
>
>
> alan