Subject: Re: RE: MBONE tools for Windows 95 problem

From: John Smyth <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 15:31:40 +0000 (GMT)

Mike,
THE INCOMING MESSAGE SEEMS TO HAVE GOT LOST - IS THIS THE 
CASE?
Shouldn't you inform users without losing their mail?

John

On Fri, 21 Feb 1997 9:55:29 +0100 (CET) "Julian J. Bunn, 
Information Technology Division, CERN, Geneva" 
<[email-masked]> wrote:

> Dave Rubin wrote:
> 
> ~When using the MBONE tool for Win95 based on Tcl/Tk (e.g., vat, vic) there 
> ~seems to be a serious bug.
> ~
> ~When launching a session with one of these tools, after exiting the program the 
> ~system is no longer able to receive *any* multicast traffic. A reboot of 
> ~Windows 95 is required to fix it.
> ~
> ~Has anyone else noticed this problem?
> 
> Yes ... and what is worse is that it _appears_ as if one cannot
> use vic/vat/rat with different multicast groups at the same time.
> One starts up e.g. vic, everything works fine, then starting up
> vat seems to destroy reception of all multicast traffic. Again,
> a reboot is necessary. If the multicast group is the same for
> audio and video (e.g. Shuttle) then both audio and video are
> received fine.
> 
> I asked Van and Isidor about this a while back, but haven't heard
> anything.
> 
> I suppose a bug in Winsock ?
> 
> Julian
> 
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