All things related to multicast

[Peter Gutierrez <>]

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On 03/12/2015 09:43 AM, 

 wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>> 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...
> 
> ummm, was wondering why you though tit was unlikely that you could
> contact the IT at a UK University? as Gary says, a few of us are here
> and know multicast.

I think it's because usually for almost all organisations, if they even
know they are multicasting, the only person that does is some crufty old
fellow kept behind locked doors in the data center (like me). Trying to
get from a general help desk or registry abuse or tech handle address to
that person can be somewhat loopy, so the time/effort expended to get
there may not be worth/available to invest when it's not a problem for
your own users.

PeterG

> 
> this is indeed interesting and whilst it might not be a thing we can
> reconfigure (some silly proprietary thing) its something we could
> block(!)  :-)
> 
> alan
> 

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Peter Gutierrez
Network Analyst
Lederle Graduate Research Center Lowrise A147
University of Massachusetts Amherst
740 N Pleasant St
Amherst MA 01003-9306

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