All things related to multicast

[Marshall Eubanks <>]

The real long term fix of course is to go to SSM. A single poorly  
crafted piece of software running on one
machine should not be able to take down a network.

Marshall

On Jun 27, 2008, at 10:14 AM, Tim Chown wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 09:51:13AM -0400, Bill Owens wrote:
>
> > Since this has become a recurring problem I'm going to approach it  
> > through education; telling people not to leave a SAP listener  
> > running on their desktop, and getting them to disable sap listen on  
> > their routers. Hopefully that will be enough. But I wonder whether  
> > it is time to start down the road towards deprecation. . .
>
> ... which leads to the question of a viable alternative.
>
> I'm hoping to have a project student working on the general area next
> semester.   I'd be interested in references to projects that are
> monitoring existing SAP traffic, with a view to redistributing the
> information via other means (perhaps RSS-a-like).   In our case, we
> would include IPv6 SAP also.
>
> Tim