[sorry, sent a personal copy to Bob previously; now to the list] On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 01:00:56PM -0400, Bob Riddle wrote: > here's a word about my previous experience using multicast on WinXP - it > uses IGMPv3 by deafult - so you can join a multicast group, but if all > the switches in line aren't IGMPv3 aware, the "is anyone listening" > message from the router never gets passed along, so the multicast > traffic disappears in about 3-5 minutes. > > I would take a Linux machine (whcih uses IGMPv2) on the same subnet as > the WinXP machine and "listen" to the same multicast group as the AG > romm I was "in" with the WInXP machine ... and everything worked out fine.
There seems to be a Microsoft hotfix listed at http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;815752&Product=winxp but it's a paid-for solution from a quick look at it. -- Niall Brady, Trinity Centre for High Performance Computing, O'Reilly Institute, Trinity College Dublin. Tel: +353-1-608-3429 Fax: +353-1-679-8039
