[linux-audio-dev] Audio over Ethernet / Livewire

[Steve Harris]

On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 09:30:19AM -0700, Michael Ost wrote:
> Is some sort of 'sequence' number needed to make sure packets arrived in
> the right order? Or perhaps UDP manages that...?

It doesnt.

I'l note that rolling yet another MIDI over UDP/TCP protocol is really
stupid, there are 3 that I know of: IEEE-whatever, RTP-MIDI and OSC.

> We're (Muse) also very interested in this sort of technology. We'd most
> likely want to run VNC alongside a protocol like this. Do you think that
> would saturate a 100 base T network?

VNC will send big packets, so oyu will need some kind of QOS support or
you will get dropouts.

- Steve