[AG-TECH] TTL - Multicast
Allan Spale
aspale at evl.uic.edu
Thu Mar 14 15:18:31 CST 2002
If I am familiar with what you are talking about, EVL actually is running
our AG nodelet with scripts (because it is a single Windows 2000 computer
with one camera and mic with no ability to use _rm-eventlistener). So,
from the command line, the script issues a -B 1000 in order that the
bandwidth slider can be set to no more than 1000 kbps. This option
resolved the same problem (256 kbps limit). I am almost certain the
command line also includes -t 127 (for the ttl). This seems to work ok,
and we can get bandwidth above 256 kbps.
I am checking e-mail from home today, so I cannot verify this or check the
command line, but other people might be able to verify that this does
work.
Good luck.
Allan
EVL at UIC
node-op
On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Nolan, Kevin [NCSUS] wrote:
>
>
> Actually, our problem is with the vic in windows. We are using windows 2000
> machines as capture computers. In linux the -B option works fine.
> According to the vic-userguide...
>
> -B
> Set the maximum value of the bandwidth slider to a user-specified
> number of kbit/s. This value is limited to 256 kbit/s if the conference
> address is a multicast address and the TTL in use is greater than 64 (ie,
> the traffic will leave your multicast region).
>
> So in the windows vic the above is true, but in the linux vic this must have
> changed in the code. It doesn't matter what we set the bandwidth to in
> windows...if the TTL is 127, it behaves as the guide suggests above.
>
> We'd like to be able to have a TTL of 127 and a bandwidth value of much more
> than 256 kbit/s on our windows capture machines.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Olson [mailto:olson at mcs.anl.gov]
> Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 1:45 PM
> To: Nolan, Kevin [NCSUS]; 'ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov'
> Subject: Re: [AG-TECH] TTL - Multicast
>
> 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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