Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 22:51:42 -0700 From: "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Cc: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mbone w/o mbone connection Message-ID: <199605170551.WAA01603@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 16 May 1996 10:26:51 %2B0200." <199605160826.KAA12702@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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> > > I was giving this a little more thought today. There is something > > > that can gateway RTP packets between the mbone and a station without > > > doing all the multicast routing. > > > > > > What you are looking for is vgw which is an RTP gateway program. I > > > beleive it is still in Alpha stage, but you might find it useful. > > > See: ftp://daedalus.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/vgw/ > > > > > > -Jim > > > > Actually, if he has mbone capability at his site then I don't see why > > he can't establish a tunnel to his home box.... > > This seems evident. Jims suggestion can be thought to be an > alternative to bypass the MBONE structure. > > > Jim's suggestion shall be the last resort. We have to watch it with video traffic. The mbone structure is a great mechanism to control traffic flow now if go around doing high speed video point to point you can kiss the internet good bye. Now I see things like vgw useful to connect end-leaf nodes like from an ISP to a (cough) Win95 box or to a (Amancio about to pass out now) to a Win95 Lan... Enjoy, Amancio
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