[AG-TECH] VIC won't start and static multicast addresses

West Suhanic giraffe911 at rogers.com
Thu Feb 17 21:06:30 CST 2005


Hi Thomas:

Thanks very much for your help. I have another question.
How do I configure the venue to use static multicast addresses
for audio and video?

Again thank you for help.

west

----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas D. Uram" <turam at mcs.anl.gov>
To: "West Suhanic" <wsuhanic at alumni.uwaterloo.ca>
Cc: <ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov>
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 4:12 PM
Subject: Re: [AG-TECH] VIC won't start


> Hi West:
>
> The venueserver allocates multicast addresses dynamically by default.
When someone enters
> the venue and will be sending video, a multicast address is allocated and
used.  If no one
> in the venue is sending video, there will be no mcast address for it, so
when you enter
> with a consumer-only setup, vic will not start.
>
> If you add a producer to your setup, and enter the venue, things should
work fine.
> Alternately, you can configure the venue to use static mcast addresses for
audio and
> video, and then your consumer vic will start (showing no video streams, of
course).
>
> Tom
>
>
> West Suhanic wrote:
> > Hi All:
> >
> > I am running a venue server on a linux machine. I am using my own
> > certificates-(my own root CA,
> > which is used to generate a service certificate for the venue server and
> > user certificate for the
> > venue client).
> >
> > I can successfully log on to the venue server via a venue client.
However
> > only RAT will
> > start. VIC will not start if I enable VideoConsumerService.
> >
> > I have gone through the logs extensively there is nothing obvious to my
> > eyes.
> >
> > Any suggestions would, as usual, be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > regards,
> >
> > west
> >
> >
> >
>




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