Hello, I suggest that you try the pim daemon of Xorp: http://www.xorp.org/
Xorp is a large project; it contains the PIM-SM daemon (Protocol Independent Multicast-Sparse Mode) to handle multicasting in Linux. Make sure that your kernel is built with multicast support (recent kernels in most distros come with it). Regards, Rami Rosen On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 3:06 PM, Arie Skliarouk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > My friend needs to broadcast an event live for 150000 viewers. Unicast > broadcasting requires tremendous bandwidth and hence - money. Thus he asked > me to check multicast option. > > There are "instructions" on doing multicast using VLC: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpkmdi1gKvM > > but during my researches I discovered that few deployed routers support > multicasting technolody, and even then, the resulting video stream would > suffer from slightest packet drop. > > Can anybody comment? > > If I understand correctly, every multicast-enabled router or firewall must > monitor subscribed multicasts and periodically poll the clients, whether > they are still interested in getting the multicast stream. > I have not found a way to forward multicast packets on Linux. Once there was > package mrouterd, but it is not shipped anymore. > > Have anybody worked with multicasted video on Linux? > > -- > Arie > > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
