All things related to multicast

[Tim Chown <>]

On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 10:18:38AM -0400, Marshall Eubanks wrote:
> 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.

True, but there's still a need to discover content.

I don't see SAP disappearing within a year, so am happy to direct a small
aount of analysis into it, and interested in anyone else considering
likewise (the student would start in Sep/Oct-ish).   

Tim

> 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