[Spread-users] Voice communication using Spread

[John Schultz]

On Sun, 25 Feb 2007, Roman Selin wrote:

> OK, is there any reliable way to determine when I am sending too fast ?

If you want to send as fast as Spread will allow, then you need to 
implement a flow control protocol between your applications.  Here is a 
pretty good discussion of flow control in Spread:

http://lists.spread.org/pipermail/spread-users/2002-March/000655.html

> What is the current status of Spines ? Is it actively developed ?

Spines is actively developed.  It is stable at version 2.2 right now. 
Check out www.spines.org for more details.

FYI, if you use UDP (multicast) in Spines I don't believe it performs 
*application* level flow control -- much like Spread.  Also, Spines 
doesn't exploit LAN broadcast or multicast capabilities, so within a LAN 
multicast is implemented as N point-to-point unicasts.  If your network is 
wide area, then Spines does a very good job of disseminating the 
multicast across the network.

Cheers!

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John Schultz
Spread Concepts
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