Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 11:42:34 -0400 (EDT) From: Trish Lynch <trish@bsdunix.net> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: FreeBSD current users <current@FreeBSD.ORG>, <multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Making an "Fbone" Message-ID: <20021015114103.X523-100000@femme.sapphite.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0210141524260.63899-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
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On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Julian Elischer wrote: > > > > 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? It seems to me tunneling similar to the Six to Four method would be quite cool for a "virtual MBone" or "Fbone" where there was of course a central tunnel hub or something. I'm not sure, since the latency would be high. -Trish -- Trish Lynch trish@bsdunix.net Ecartis Core Team trish@listmistress.org EFNet IRC Oper @ efnet.dkom.at AilleCat@EFNet UNIXNet IRC Admin @ femme.ipv6.sapphite.org AilleCat@UNIXNet Key fingerprint = C44E 8E63 6E3C 18BD 608F E004 9DC7 C2E9 0E24 DFBD To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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