[Live-devel] What's the DirectedNetInterface used for?

Ross Finlayson finlayson at live555.com
Wed Mar 11 08:57:50 PDT 2009


>I'm reading the groupSock source code these days.
>I found DirectedNetInterface is a pure abstract class,
>In groupSock::outputToAllMemberExcept(...), the member functions are 
>called, but I cannot find any implementation in the project.
>I wonder what's this class used for?
>I guess it can be extended and used for stream forwarding? or 
>application layer multicast?

Yes, we use this for our implementation of UMTP 
<http://www.live555.com/umtp.txt>

Otherwise, this code ends up not being used.
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Ross Finlayson
Live Networks, Inc.
http://www.live555.com/


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