Re: Using Ghost Console to manage clients across subnets

Seth Novogrodsky wrote:
> At 08:05 PM 5/7/2007, ken lindahl wrote:
>
>> i'm not real familiar with the Ghost Solution Suite, but i assume the
>> Ghost Console mentioned by Seth is a different component from the
>> Ghostcast server. is that correct?
>
> Yes, that's correct. We are currently just trying to manage clients
> from the Ghost Console, which uses multicast, and we haven't yet
> attempted to do anything with the GhostCast server. Ultimately, we
> would like to use the GhostCast server, however.
>
> In any case, it's helpful to know that directed broadcast probably won't
> be an option because we would need it enabled in multiple subnets across
> campus.

that's correct, IST would be extremely reluctant to enable directed broadcast.

on the other hand, i believe a multicast application that is working properly will be able to work across different subnets without any need for directed broadcast. (that's certainly true for the variety of streaming audio/video apps that are successfully using multicast on campus today). if an application doesn't work, i think either
  (1) the application is written incorrectly, or
  (2) the application is configured incorrectly, or
  (3) one or more campus routers are not configured correctly for multicast.

if you want to pursue this, feel free to contact me off-list.

ken

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Received on Tue May 08 2007 - 15:52:02 PDT