From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 3 10:20:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA25628 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 10:20:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from miller.cs.uwm.edu (miller.cs.uwm.edu [129.89.139.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA25599 for ; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 10:20:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from james@miller.cs.uwm.edu) Received: (from james@localhost) by miller.cs.uwm.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA02699; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 12:20:22 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 12:20:22 -0600 (CST) From: Jim Lowe Message-Id: <199803031820.MAA02699@miller.cs.uwm.edu> To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com, mike@smith.net.au Subject: Re: 3.0-RELEASE? Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, jak@cetlink.net, opsys@mail.webspan.net, smp@csn.net, tlambert@primenet.com, toor@dyson.iquest.net Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > To: Amancio Hasty > cc: tlambert@primenet.com, toor@dyson.iquest.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG, > jak@cetlink.net, opsys@mail.webspan.net, smp@csn.net > From: Mike Smith > > > You know there is the MBone for this sort of scenarios and it > > will not be difficult to setup world group meetings where > > folks can go attend the session for instance Whistle has or had > > a fine mbone tunnel . > > Hah. You forget that nobody outside the Bay area has the mbone > anymore, if they ever had it in the first place. > The Mbone seems to work fine here in the midwest. I have been watching places all over the world and listening to radio free vat with nearly 0% loss for over a week now. I guess it just depends on your service provider and how seriously they take running multicast. If they don't have enough bandwidth to properly exchange unicast traffic, they certainly aren't going to have enough for multicast traffic. -Jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message