Re: [LAD] FOSS Ethernet Soundcard

On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 04:46:02PM +0100, Karl Hammar wrote: WTF? Soldering is what it takes to make the product. If soldering is the motivation for the project, I couldn't care less. ;) OTOH, as Gene has pointed out, a completely open source protocol replacing ADAT is a valid motivation, so the HQ guys could still jump the band waggon once the protocol has settled. (given that it will ever make its way) I could then place multiple ADAT converters on the net, combine their capacity without using MADI (64 channels over one cable), copy the signal at the FOH (front-of-house, mixing desk), feed every musician with his personal monitoring stream and record it. Today, RockNet does this, all audio distribution networks do this, but they are expensive. My impression was you want to provide this kind of functionality for less money. If I could save the MADI card and just plug the network cable into my el-cheapo network card, I would have a gain. I'd probably slap you when come up with code like this. ;) This is lacking abstraction. For those who haven't heard, yet: An IP address isn't an uint32_t. This is the road to hell, leads to unportable code. But since I'm working for the networking chair at Jena University, let me tell you that the right structure for an IP address is struct sockaddr_storage Nothing else. Don't even dare to shift bits in an uint32_t. Things like this might have been right in the 90ties, but we had RFC 3493 in February 2003 (and RFC 2553 in 1999). ;) (things might be different when we're talking kernel level) As mentioned in the original posting: if I could provide some input, I'd happily do this. It's probably a good idea to decide on the goals, first, but I might have missed that part of the discussion. Cheerio -- mail: adi(a)thur.de http://adi.thur.de PGP/GPG: key via keyserver