[AG-TECH] VPCscreen TTL (patch for VPMedia)

[Thomas Uram]

Chris:

That code lives in the svn repo here at svn.ci.uchicago.edu/svn/if-media. Do you want to commit it or should I?

Tom


----- Original Message -----
From: "Christoph Willing" <c.willing at uq.edu.au>
To: "Philippe d'Anfray" <Philippe.d-Anfray at cea.fr>
Cc: ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
Sent: Friday, April 2, 2010 9:30:25 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
Subject: Re: [AG-TECH] VPCscreen TTL (patch for VPMedia)


On 02/04/2010, at 10:39 PM, Philippe d'Anfray wrote:

> Bonjour
>
> Great !!  with this test version of VPCScreen, the multicast packets  
> are
> given a TTL of 127 and can be received normally at other multicast
> locations (at least in France....) (and also through bridges).


OK, thanks for raising the problem and doing the test Philippe.

And also thanks to Andrew Rowley for suggesting a ttl issue as the  
cause of the problem!


This change should be applied to all the various release packages.  
Attached below is the patch I've used - it just sets a default ttl of  
127. A better fix would be to use whatever the user asks for, so if  
anyone has time ....


chris







> Christoph Willing a écrit :
>>
>>
>> Philippe,
>>
>> Could you try some tests with:
>>    http://www.vislab.uq.edu.au/debuntu/tests/ 
>> vpcscreen_0.2-4_amd64.deb
>>
>> You'll have to download manually and use dpkg to install (rather than
>> apt-get etc.):
>>    sudo dpkg -i vpcscreen_0.2-4_amd64.deb
>>
>>
>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Anyway, I think I've found the cause in the vpcscreen code and will
>>>> apply a simple minded fix for testing. Would you be able to test  
>>>> it? I
>>>> can't easily replicate your problem here to confirm that the fix
>>>> works. If you are able to help with the testing, could you confirm
>>>> that you're using Ubuntu 9.10 and whether you're using 32 or 64bit
>>>> version please, so that I can build the appropriate version for  
>>>> you?
>>>>
>
> <Philippe_d-Anfray.vcf>

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