[vlc] Re: VLC Quickstart & Multicast/Windows 2000?

[Bill Eldridge]

Alexis de Lattre wrote:

>Hello Bill !
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>I'm happy to see that you are back on VideoLAN ! :-)
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Thanks!

>I guess you are talking about the VideoLAN Quickstart, not VLC
>Quickstart :-)
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Probably.

>On Tue, Mar 11, 2003, Bill Eldridge wrote :
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>>Compile Multicast into Linux kernel
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>Yes, of course ! This is compiled by default now in the kernels... users
>just have not to forget the option if they recompile their kernel...
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>>[root at rfasuc38 vlc-0.5.1]# route add -net 224.0.0.0 netmask 240.0.0.0 
>>dev eth0
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>Why do you need that ? You are using an old kernel ?
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Nope, 2.4.21-pre4

>>[root at rfasuc38 vlc-0.5.1]# echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
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>Again, why do you need that ?
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>I don't have to use either of these commands to make multicast work...
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On the same machine, or accessing the Linux server from another machine?
I can multicast to my own machine without this.
However, no machine should have routing (ip_forward) on by default, non?



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