Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] It's time to vote (n. 1)
From: Steve Harris (S.W.Harris_AT_ecs.soton.ac.uk)
Date: Fri May 25 2001 - 13:20:12 EEST
On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 09:29:37AM +0200, Adriaan Pelzer wrote:
> Sounds good...
>
> Only danger with UDP is when you have a bottleneck somewhere (receiving side
> slower than sending side) you might drop packets.
> Don't think it will be a problem with audio though...
>
> I've played with the libnet libraries (allow you to build raw packets) but I
> think what we need here is libpcap.
>
> I'll check it out some time. (With both it's actually possible to write a
> protocol on UDP doing the throttling but then we're heading TCP way)
Throtling isn't an issue cos were dealing with small ammounts of data
here.
If the machine can't keep up with the ethernet card then it can't do the
DSP work either.
- Steve
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