[Live-devel] Multicast address as a source?

[Ross Finlayson]

At 06:01 AM 2/16/04, you wrote:
>Hello,
>I've got a question about what is written at
>http://www.live.com/liveCaster/interfaceControl.html
>"liveCaster and playRTPMPEG have two additional, optional command-line
>arguments - "-si <IP-address>" and "-ri <IP-address>" - that can be used
>to specify the IP address of the multicast sending and receiving
>interfaces, respectively."
>I thought that multicast addresses could not be used as an IP source
>address.
>In the case of liveCaster -si <IP-address> represents a unicast address?

That's correct.  The arguments to "-si" or "-ri" is the *unicast* IP 
address of the desired interface.  I'll change the description to make that 
clearer.

(Also, thanks for noting the broken links.)


	Ross Finlayson
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