From owner-freebsd-multimedia Tue Oct 15 8:58: 1 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBB2837B401; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 08:57:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from femme.sapphite.org (pcp02268182pcs.longhl01.md.comcast.net [68.50.99.190]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFE5C43E9C; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 08:57:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from trish@bsdunix.net) Received: from localhost (trish@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by femme.sapphite.org (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g9FFgYtm016142; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 11:42:35 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from trish@bsdunix.net) Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 11:42:34 -0400 (EDT) From: Trish Lynch X-X-Sender: To: Julian Elischer Cc: FreeBSD current users , Subject: Re: Making an "Fbone" In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20021015114103.X523-100000@femme.sapphite.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@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: > > > > 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-multimedia" in the body of the message