[CAP] technical data on CAP protocol

[Linh H. Le]

from network standpoint the problem you experienced shouldn't have anything
to do in particular with CAP since it's not a networking protocol. You
should look into the software package specs to see how the CAP is being
used and also check the size of the message. Maybe the message sender got
into an indefinite loop and keep sending out large messages, which chewed
up the network bandwidth
cheer


                                                                           
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I am a network technician in charge of monitoring traffic on our Wide
Area Network.  Our monitoring software has reported a CAP protocol
consuming 29+ Megabits of bandwidth at various intervals.  Due to
limitations in the software package, we are unable to verify that the
common alerting protocol is the source.



Does anyone know the mechanics of the process and how it relates to a
network from a communications protocol/bandwidth standpoint?



Thanks
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