[CAP] technical data on CAP protocol

[Art Botterell]

John -

The Common Alerting Protocol is an XML content standard, not a  
transport protocol... so I'm not sure what, exactly, your monitoring  
software is detecting... but I'm pretty sure it isn't the CAP we're  
involved with.

You might want to query your software vendor and see what "CAP"  
stands for in their world.

- Art


On Nov 1, 2005, at 1:59 PM, John Minier wrote:

> 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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