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I believe you. Currently I've left the IPv4 domain and changed my lab to IPv6 to play around with multicasting.

If I notice any irregularities I'll whine here in the forum. ;)

Did you know that vlc is even better than MS Mediaplayer?

-Danny

Hi, I've noticed with a packetsniffer (Ethereal, what else?) that no matter what you set as a TTL you resulting stream would always be a TTL of 1. This means that streams created with the VLC wizard cannot pass any multicast enabled router. Solution: Use the commandline TTL setting "--ttl <stri...

Hi, You can't really go wrong with dense-mode. I think you used the wizard to set up the multicast stream and the wizard has a problem. VLC sets the TTL by default to 1 so the multicast stream doesn't pass the current broadcast domain. Seen from your config the stream passes at least one router so y...