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["Greg Wickham" <>]

Hi Dan,

Any jitter issues?

I'm curious as a lot us use multicast mainly for Access Grids (this side
of the puddle).

Thanks,

   -Greg

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Oachs 
> [mailto:]
> Sent: Friday, 9 March 2007 2:45 PM
> To: Greg Wickham
> Cc: 
> 
> Subject: Re: Linux as a multicast router?
> 
> We are currently using xorp ( http://xorp.org/ ) to do multicast
routing
> on our campus and pimd to connect it to internet2.  They both seem to
be
> working well.  We did have some stability issues with xorp on new
> hardware, but it has been running great for about a month now on older
> hardware (P4 1.8Ghz).  xorp is handling multicast routing between 12
> subnets and delivering about 10 iptv channels at 4Mbit/s each and
video
> streams from internet2 without any trouble (
> https://gustv.gac.edu/tv.php ) .
> 
> --Dan Oachs
>    Gustavus Adolphus College
> 
> Greg Wickham wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Pondering a networking issue for one of our members I was wondering
if
> > Linux could be used as a multicast router (to prevent multicast from
> > having to go through their firewall).
> >
> > Some quick research yields mrouted. But the latest I can find is
version
> > 3.9beta3 dated 26 April 1999.
> >
> > Is this the software & version to use?
> >
> > Has anyone any experience with mrouted?
> >
> > Tia,
> >
> >   -Greg
> >
> >