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> I'm also somewhat interested in the network part, I feel IPv6 could help<br>> a lot. It supports autoconfiguration and it has decent multicast<br>> support, so it would be possible to broadcast/multicast the streams on<br>> the net (LAN). This could be useful if you want to access the stream at<br>> a mixing console for a life setup and simultaneously record it on a<br>> computer.<br><br>Put another way, it would be far more compatible if this were done over<br>an IP stream rather than any native ethernet stream, not least it could use<br>any ethernet driver that linux supports rather than a small subset of them.<br><br>I am sure this will make a lot of the lower layer people turn away from the<br>project which is unfortunate but there are a lot of issues associated with <br>attempting to do this over a native ethernet connection: it would need some<br>consideration to be given to data loss and recovery which are already native<br>to the higher layers.<br><br>Perhaps the project needs to be specified with regards to its goals? If the<br>idea is just to have Ethernet supported as an interface then fine, native <br>access is probably fine. If the idea is to have Ethernet supported as a <br>transport the reusing what is already available makes a lot of sense. To <br>start with, being able to use any Ethernet card already means it can be<br>done cheaply. Limiting it to selected devices perhaps not so as it would<br>require the purchase of specific cards.<br><br>Anyway, to paraphrase a joke a friend made recently, he drove to a Linux<br>Audio Conference where the people there said to him "what are those round<br>things on the side of your car?". He said at least when we went to the<br>networking conferences people knowingly said "ah, I know what _they_ are. <br>They're called wheels..... I've seen those before."<br><br>Kind regards, nick<br> <br /><hr />Windows Live: <a href='http://www.microsoft.com/middleeast/windows/windowslive/see-it-in-action/social-network-basics.aspx?ocid=PID23461::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-xm:SI_SB_3:092010' target='_new'>Friends get your Flickr, Yelp, and Digg updates when they e-mail you.</a></body>
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