From: Jeffrey Fitzgerald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Accessing multicasts from non-multicast enabled nets Who is your ISP?? At 10:53 AM 10/14/99 -0700, you wrote: >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mats Elmeskog) >Subject: Accessing multicasts from non-multicast enabled nets > >When you set up a stream multicast access only, people who try to access >this stream from non-multicastenabled environments get an errormessage >saying. >"RealPlayer cannot show the stream" (or something to that effect). >This is not very good as the player in fact works beautifully, only >their environment does not support Multicasts. > >I want to be able to send them an errormessage saying "This material is >Multicast only. Your networks does not support IP-multicast. Please >contact your networks administrator" >or even better, have the system release a stream with a nice voice >telling the would-be-viewer that his player works beautifully, only his >Network does not support IP-Multicast. > >I believe that something like this can be achieved using a CGI-script >thet checks whether the requesting IP-adress is within the multicast >subnet, but I haven't seen it done. Does anyone know how I could go >about this? All ideas are good ideas. Otherwise I will be overloaded >with emails from people whi think the player sucks when it is actually >their network that is inadequate. > >If anyone has any ideas on this please post it! >mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ******************************************************* The RealForum is an email discussion group focused on using RealNetworks products. The RealForum is a place to post messages about the best methods for creating content using RealNetworks technologies and the planning and implementation of streaming-media web sites. If you ever want to remove yourself from this mailing list, you can send mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with the following command in the body of your email message: unsubscribe realforum or from another account, besides the address you subscribed with: unsubscribe realforum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
