The only part of the AG that uses multicast is the media streams. None of the shared applications I'm aware of uses multicast.
Tom Jennifer Teig von Hoffman wrote: > Hi Dio, > > Dioselin Gonzalez wrote: > >> Hello everybody, >> >> We are working on a distance learning project and we would like to use >> AG. One of the concerns is we want students to be able to attend >> class from home, where usually we don't have multicast. I've been >> reading the documentation about bridges and the unicast option in the >> venue client. I have tried using this option at home and connect to >> the Argonne bridge, but yet I can't attend meetings from home. What >> am I missing? Would anybody point me out to what it takes to use >> unicast ? > > > I'm not a networking person, but my hunch is it's either a blocked > port(s), or your traffic is going through a NAT router (which translates > addresses in a way that interferes with AG). > >> Another question: from what I've read, using unicast would allow users >> to start the media tools, but not the shared apps. Is this correct? > > > Depends on the shared app. I believe many shared apps use unicast natively. > > - Jennifer > >
