From owner-freebsd-chat Mon May 6 18:14:44 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA21742 for chat-outgoing; Mon, 6 May 1996 18:14:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [204.188.121.18]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA21735 for ; Mon, 6 May 1996 18:14:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id SAA00857; Mon, 6 May 1996 18:14:06 -0700 Message-Id: <199605070114.SAA00857@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.5 12/11/95 To: Jeremy Sigmon cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MBONE and FreeBSD In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 06 May 1996 21:06:57 EDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 06 May 1996 18:14:06 -0700 From: "Amancio Hasty Jr." Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk It is easy to setup if you have decent OS which supports ip multicast. You can setup a tunnel between your site and the target site. For instance, this my /etc/mrouted.conf tunnel 204.188.121.18 140.174.2.1 metric 1 Now the other side has a similar line however it has the ip addresses swap. The targetted lans can route ip multicast packets as for the ISPs not necessaryly supporting ip multicast it does not really matter because the tunnel concept was created with this scenario in mind. In other words, what I am suggesting works. Regards, Amancio > > I believe I have enough bandwidth, but it is more of a configuraton > question that I have. I have a few of the products you speak of, but > I don't have mrouted setup. Without this I don't believe I can get > vic to work. I am talking with our telecommunications people to > see if they will setup the router to support multicasting. I think it > is a CISCO 7000. I believe our internet connection heirarchy goes > as follows: SuraNET=>BNNPlanet=>WVNET=>us > I believe the first two support multicasting, but I don't know > about the last two. Thanks alot for your input. > Jeremy > > On Mon, 6 May 1996, Amancio Hasty Jr. wrote: > > > > > > > I have been asked by my boss to look into a product for audio/visual > > > communication over the internet. This would be used for feedback > > > from a distance education project. Would the MBone be useful for > > > this or what technologies do you suggest? > > > Thanks, > > > > > > > It depends on much bandwith you are talking about if you have > > 256kb/sec then you are in business . > > > > At any rate, you can try out vic/vat/sdr/wb all available on > > my ftp site: > > ftp://rah.star-gate.com/pub > > > > Enjoy, > > Amancio > > > > > >