[CentOS] udp stream multiply

[Philip Manuel]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> Jure Pečar wrote:
>   
>> On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:36:33 +0100
>> Nicolas Thierry-Mieg <Nicolas.Thierry-Mieg at imag.fr> wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> if you control the app on the destinations, you could use multicast?
>>> Otherwise maybe broadcast on your LAN, all interested clients can pick 
>>> up the packets.
>>>       
>> Yes, these are the options, but what if I'm limited to unicasts? How do I take one packet, clone it into three, change destination address and send them out?
>>     
>
> I don't think there is a generic tool for that, but it would be fairly simple to 
> write a C program to do exactly what you want.  If it is something like a video 
> or audio stream you might get vlc (videolan client) to receive and convert to 
> multicast.
>
>   
If speed wasn't an issue couldn't you use socat, tee, pipes and fifo's 
and socat again to rebroadcast it ?  i.e socat as the listener redirect 
to a fifo, have cat or socat as a listener to rebroadcast , use tee to 
send to another fifo and another socat instance to send to another 
host.  Horrible I know but feasible.