Hi Andrew, This sounds like a firewall issue. I believe Rat uses port 47000 to communicate to the user interface.
I need to accept all packets from my IP to udp port 47000 for the gui to appear. See http://www-mice.cs.ucl.ac.uk/multimedia/software/rat/faq.html#mroute for more info. Todd Andrew Daviel wrote: > I put AG 2.3 (from the UQ FC1 rpms) on a desktop running RedHat 9. When > Rat runs, the UI never appears, though the ui and media tasks seem to be > running OK. I tried both the AG2.3 and AG2.2 Rat (on other machines I've > had problems with the Alsa patched Rat; one one alsaconfig says "no > cards" but OSS runs fine...), and along the way I found that if iptables > stops Rat talking to 224.something it hangs until it can. But this is a > different problem - the Rat from VRVS works OK. In fact, I've packaged > that one into AudioService.zip and it works, but I'd like to solve the > problem as the interface is slightly different - handling of spaces in > venue names, codec support etc. > > Launching it by hand (cd .AccessGrid/local_services/AusioService ; > ./rat 239.255.45.67/12345 ) doesn't work either; but the equivalent > cd .VRVS/mbone ; ./rat ... is OK > > Any ideas ? > >