[Sumover-dev] [Media Tools] #182: RAT & VIC Crash on Vista laptop

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#182: RAT & VIC Crash on Vista laptop
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 Reporter:  piers   |       Owner:  piers 
     Type:  defect  |      Status:  new   
 Priority:  major   |   Milestone:        
Component:  rat     |     Version:  4.4.00
 Keywords:          |  
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 Reported by Tobias at AGSC on 4 July:
 "The problems with the vic and rat under Windows Vista Business, from VIC
 I get a message
 telling me
        IP_ADD_MEMBERSHIP: A socket operation was attempted to an
        unreachable host.
 whereas RAT crashes immediately.

 I got PAG including vic and rat working through a CISCO VPN client over
 wireless networking, and it continued working on wired networking
 without the VPN client once it worked."

 On 21 July:
 "This version seems to have the same problem, after some more
 investigations we can pin the problem down to Network interfaces which
 don't have any IP address assigned. vic and rat seem to connect to the
 first Network interface they find. To reproduce the problem I switched
 on the bluetooth interface and the wireless networking. This explains
 the strange behaviour I had befor when starting the VPN client seemed to
 fix the problem. It wasn't the VPN itself but the assigning of an IP
 address to the Wireless network card. For the moment we can use the old
 version of vic and rat. We will document the problem and recommend
 switching off all network devices which have no IP address assigned."

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