[CentOS] udp stream multiply
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Wed Feb 17 13:35:46 UTC 2010
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.
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Les Mikesell
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