Darin, Thanks to you and others, it's nice to know the community appreciates our services. Everyone should be aware that the nature of multicast problems demand that they be investigated while the problem exists. Once everyone signs off from a meeting, the state for that multicast session is destroyed. So as problems with the bridge or other multicast issues arise, it is vital to gather as much information as possible and contact the appropriate network administrators immediately. Please check with your local administrators about their policy for handling emergencies, especially if you are involved in an off-hours meeting in your area.
As always, please let me know if you have further questions about the NCSA AG servers. Michael Darin Oman wrote: > I'll second that! Many of us take the NCSA resources for granted. They > don' t HAVE to do what they do. Thank you! > > By the way, um, there still seemed to be problems on Tuesday. > Multicast people couldn't receive video from bridged people. > > Darin > > > On Feb 16, 2006, at 8:54 AM, Cindy Sievers wrote: > >> I'd like to take this opportunity to thank Mike Miller and the >> network folks at NCSA for all of their efforts in identifying and >> solving the problems with the unicast bridge they run against their >> public venues. The public venue server and associated bridges that >> NCSA provides to the Access Grid community are invaluable for many of >> the large and small events that occur. For many participants who work >> in extremely restrictive environments behind firewalls, we have come >> to depend on the public servers. I know that from at least my >> perspective, we would have been unable to participate in many of the >> highly visible and important events that have taken place over the >> past few years if it were not for the services provided by NCSA. >> Taking the time to track down and fix network issues is frustrating, >> but we all realize how important this task is. So a huge thanks goes >> out to the folks at NCSA for putting forth the effort and making such >> a tremendous contribution to the Access Grid community! >> >> >> >> ============================================ >> Cindy Sievers Los Alamos National Laboratory >> siev...@lanl.gov Group CCS-1 MS B287 >> tel:505.665.6602 Advanced Computing >> fax:505.665.4939 Los Alamos, NM 87544 >> ============================================ >> > > -- Thanx, Michael Miller System Engineer Video Technology Services Persistent Infrastructure Directorate National Center for Supercomputing Applications University of Illinois - UC 217-649-0747 "If you're clear in your vision and trust the people in your team with clear objectives, they will invariably do their best to achieve everything desired, and usually deliver everything you could have hoped for and even more." -Paul Debevec
