[AG-TECH] TTL - Multicast
Robert Olson
olson at mcs.anl.gov
Thu Mar 14 12:45:14 CST 2002
At 12:01 PM 3/14/2002 -0500, Nolan, Kevin [NCSUS] wrote:
>The problem we're seeing with both VIC and Rat is that as the TTL value
>gets increased, the amount of data being transmitted is decreased as a way
>to alleviate network congestion. The problem with this is that our remote
>sites generally connect via high-bandwidth links, and the associated lower
>frame rates are unacceptable for real-time communication between
>sites. Is there any way that we can change these values, or does the
>source code have to be modified?
the AG software passes a max-bandwidth option to vic that overrides the
default:
vic -t 127 -B 10000 ip/port
What is rat doing with ttl? is it refusing to let you set the higher-rate
encodings? I don't think I have any particular settings to make rat work
properly.
--bob
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