From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mats Elmeskog) Subject: Re: Accessing multicasts from non-multicast enabled nets Its a closed net for the swedish universities. The Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm will host the broadcast. / RealForum wrote: > 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]>
