At 11:37 PM 10/19/00, Harald Alvestrand wrote:
my anarchistic self wonders....
what would happen if there was an open server that would allow (filtered)
MBONE tunnels to connect, and a widely available (Linux?) client that
would connect to that server, and behave like a multicast router?
"start this program on a spare PC, and you too can watch the IETF multicast".
FYI, a UDP-based tunneling protocol called "UMTP" has been used for several
years now to tunnel multicast UDP packets over UDP unicast tunnels. The
Internet-Draft for this is currently expired, but is online as
<http://www.live.com/umtp.txt>
One advantage of using UDP/UDP tunneling (rather than IP/IP) is that you
don't need raw sockets, so people can even run tunnel endpoints on OSs like
Windows 9x.
There is also server software available (using this protocol) that people
can use right now to set up multicast-over-unicast tunnels, but it would be
an inappropriate use of the "ietf" list to say where :-)
Ross.