Tag: location

I was a little disappointed to see that Sametime 7.5.1CF1 doesn’t fix the issue (see the fix list) where the Connect client reports the location as being the same when switching between two networks with the same IP configuration (see Location identification in Sametime 7.5 – working as designed?) as it doesn’t take the MAC address of the gateway isn’t considered.

As you probably know Sametime 7.5 will automatically discover which location you are at when you run Sametime and display it in the top right corner. As previously described (Central repository of known locations for Sametime 7.5) this information is kept in the locprofile-config.xml file which stores the location information indexed by the network address (e.g. 192.168.100.0) and the MAC address of the gateway.

I am however starting to doubt whether Sametime actually uses the MAC address information at all. I am currently on a network with the same network characteristics as my home network and Sametime is showing that I am at home which in fact I’m not…

Time to call support I guess unless someone knows the answer…