----- Original Message ----- From: "VS Renganathan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 1:19 PM Subject: RE: [Flightgear-devel] Urgent: Network and external flight model
> Roman, > This was dicussed earlier on this list. > I found one disdavantage of using multicast. My packet size or structure > kept growing as I added more computers on the network that are **not** image > generators but pcs used as flight test engineer station or fcs monitoring > station etc. Why should image generators receive data that is not intended > for it and vice versa. So I find non-blocking udp fast enough while > maintaining packet sizes to the minmum required and I suppose bandwidth > requirements are not too high to cause perceptible delays. > Regards > Ranga I definitly agree with you here Ranga but if you want to get fdm data syncronously to image generators you should use multicast because all ig get data at the same time you can create multiply multicast groups (one for IGs another form panel HUD ) but I think that for IGs - best is multicast (no delays between channels) > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jonathan > Polley > Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 7:16 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Urgent: Network and external flight > model > > > David, > > At work, I run a proprietary FDM on a Sun Workstation and feed the > data to FlightGear. I use the '--fdm=external' and '--native_fdm=...' > options (--native_fmd= uses the same parameters as --native). I did > make some changes to Network/native_fdm.cxx to properly manage the > byte-order issues, but it works like a champ. IMHO, --native_fdm= has a > cleaner interface than does --native=. To see the data structure that > the FDM needs to generate, look in Network/raw_fdm.hxx. > > Jonathan Polley > > p.s. I have submitted my edits. > > On Thursday, January 31, 2002, at 06:37 PM, David Findlay wrote: > > > Just checking a couple of details - you can run an external flight > > model on a > > machine other than the one running FGFS right? Thanks, > > > > David > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Flightgear-devel mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel > > > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel > > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel > _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
