Hi Thad, Yup, I'm sure the ability to ping off-campus will be a step in the right direction! ;)
You might want to take a look at this document, and/or send it along to your networking staff: http://www.accessgrid.org/?q=node/20 You're right that just asking for multicast isn't enough detail -- there are real issues with port access that will likely be an issue if you're behind a firewall. Many of us end up in the DMZ as a result, though there are other successful approaches. Cheers, Jennifer Thad Sze wrote: > > So I think we've established that the reason that I can't see the list > of bridges is that I can't ping off campus. > > Now, so far as multicast, I have to figure out exactly what I need to > ask the NOC for, who have said that they might be able to configure > multicast on some of our subnets. I'm worried that just asking for > multicast to be turned on may not be detailed enough. Should I, for > instance, ask for any of the following: > > access to mbone, or just multicast routing to Abilene? > > any specific multicast address space or all of it? > > anything else that those of you who have had to ask your NOCs to enable > multicast before ran into because you didn't know to ask for it initially? > > > Thanks, > > Thad
