[vdr] Re: Streaming-Plugin Windows client for unicast

[Sascha Volkenandt <mailbot1@wat.willz.de>]

On Sonntag, 9. Februar 2003 20:44 erik svensson wrote:
> Not so strange that multicast kills your connection.
> When multicast is sent over a lowend switch with out
> IGMP snoop it will become broadcast on all ports.
>
> If you have a slow connection a multicast stream of a
> couple of Mbit/s will fill you connection.
>
> Only way to solve this problem on a local lan is to
> have a highend switch that can see on what ports
> multicast traffic are requested.

I think my main problem is the hardware of one of my pcs.

pinging 224.0.0.1, all multicast-capable host must reply, but one over here 
doesn't (and that's my vdr. Multicast enabled, routes set, and so on - no 
chance)


Greetings,
Sascha Volkenandt


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