Squeak and Multicast?

Kevin Fisher kgf at golden.net
Tue Jul 23 16:36:50 UTC 2002


Thanks Ned, I'll look into this.

Basically I'm just playing around, but the idea of using multicast for
audio/video broadcasting is intreguing.  It's the way it Should Be (TM)
done, although unicast seems to rule the day right now.


On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 09:24:10AM -0700, Ned Konz wrote:
> On Monday 22 July 2002 06:45 pm, Kevin Fisher wrote:
> 
> > Just a quick question...I've been dabbling with multicast (and
> > wondering why it hasn't taken off more) and was wondering...does
> > Squeak have any support at all for multicast, or is it straight
> > TCP/UDP/IP?
> 
> Depending on what you're trying to accomplish, you might find that my 
> Spread plugin (see http://www.spread.org) is a good basis for (for 
> instance) collaborative apps.
> 
> It uses multicast internally (at least on LAN segments).
> 
> -- 
> Ned Konz
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