Vista Enterprise and programs that broadcast,

[l33byt1980]

Hi I am a telephone engineer who dials into sites. We use a program to maintain our systems via IP.
Now we may not know the IP address of the remote system so the Application sends a broadcast out on 255.255.255.255 to see if it can see a registered mac.

Now Vista would appear to stop this. If I set preference to Uni Cast to the address it finds it.

Can I over come this at all.

ACA - IPOffice implement
ACA - IP Telephony
CCNA - Passed at last

 

[rct99403]

Vista has what it calls network protection. Meaning it will not let a machine join a network until it figures things are safe. You "could" try to disable it and see if that works. Also I beleived I read an article about Vista shutting off broadcasting. Just remeber "VISTA a new Millenium"
RCT

 

[l33byt1980]

Do you know where I would find this option?

ACA - IPOffice implement
ACA - IP Telephony
CCNA - Passed at last

 

[BadBigBen]

More info on NAP:

Network Access Protection

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/network/bb545879.aspx

but I am leaning more towards IPsec Policy Agent being the culprit than NAP, since the default setting for NAP is set to MANUAL...

but do not quote me on that...

Ben

"If it works don't fix it! If it doesn't use a sledgehammer..."