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RE: (ASCEND) Multicast weirdness

Andre,

I have noticed that you can't retrieve .PDF files from Ascend's WWW
server using Netscape 4.0.  If you use Netscape 3.01, it works.

Steve.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Andre Beck [SMTP:beck@ibh-dd.de]
> Sent:	Thursday, January 08, 1998 4:19 AM
> To:	Ascend Users
> Subject:	(ASCEND) Multicast weirdness
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've posted on this here already but no answer yet. I'd like to try
> out the multicasting capabilities of several Ascend boxes I have
> around. I basically have two obstacles:
> 
> 1) Documentation, or better lack thereof. I can't find where the
>    multicast stuff for Ascend boxes is documented. Neither the
>    "ISP Guide" nor the "Reference Guide" from the beta download
>    area (I assumed them to be the newest) had a single word on
>    it. Searching www.ascend.com reveals some release notes that
>    may have information, but the WWW server fails to retrieve them.
>    I'll have a look on FTP later, but this is a really bad example
>    for documentation: We are at least one major version after the
>    releases where multicast was added (4.6Bi or such) but still have
>    no documentation besides what may hang around in a giant backlog
>    of change release notes.
> 
> 2) Missing Multicast at all
>    On our Max4000/E1 I have the Multicast... Menu (between DNS and
> Auth).
>    The menu is missing on all Max2000 and Max1800 units I have access
>    to. On www.ascend.com is clearly stated that these units _do_
> support
>    IGMP multicast routing, so I guess the feature was simply
> forgotten.
> 
> Anyone ?
> 
> TIA,
> Andre.
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