From owner-freebsd-current Mon Oct 14 15:40:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 375A237B401; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 15:40:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sccrmhc03.attbi.com (sccrmhc03.attbi.com [204.127.202.63]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96D7543EAF; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 15:40:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from InterJet.elischer.org ([12.232.206.8]) by sccrmhc03.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20021014224011.DFVU24958.sccrmhc03.attbi.com@InterJet.elischer.org>; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 22:40:11 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.elischer.org [127.0.0.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA76071; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 15:31:31 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 15:31:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: FreeBSD current users Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Making an "Fbone" In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Julian Elischer wrote: > > but it'd be nice if FreeBSD could build it's own "conference-net" > so we could do that sort of thing.. > > > I've used Vic, and wb, but we don't have a mbone to run it on any more > really.. > uunet was charging for it last I looked.. We need to work out some > way to organise our own "Fbone" :-) > So, What would be the tools of choice? someone mentionned gnomemeeting, and there are the old Multicast tools e.g. vic/wb/sdr etc. any other suggestions? and what would be a good suggestion for cheap cameras people could just go out and buy... Is there a good selection of white-board tools? If freebsd woudl act as a hub on an mbone or similar distribution scheme how woudl we organise he topolgy? how would we work out where a new user should tap into the net? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message