All things related to multicast

[Bill Owens <>]

On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 01:06:25PM +0000, Gary Parker wrote:
> 
> > On 12 Mar 2015, at 13:00, Bill Owens 
> > <>
> >  wrote:
> > 
> > Yes, there is a bar at Longborough called the Elvyn, and it presumably 
> > has a till. Which, for some reason, is using multicast, with a global 
> > (and reserved) group address. And setting an apparently unnecessary flag 
> > that makes the packets go to every router, everywhere.
> > 
> > I think it's extremely unlikely that I would ever be able to find Jack 
> > Lakin or a networking person at lut.ac.uk who would be interested in 
> > reconfiguring their cash register, so I'll be filtering that myself…
> 
> Fortunately we’re on-list Bill!
> 
> I’ll have a chat with the networks guys and we’ll have a look...

Oh, excellent! I really didn't expect anyone would be, and getting anyone's 
attention from the outside is generally difficult with these sorts of 
things... "Hi, I'm a network guy from another country who you don't know, and 
I want to talk to you about your multicast enabled cash registers."

Thanks,
Bill.