Dan Jablonsky wrote: > hi all, > I have the following situation that I need to manage: > one network that includes > 1. one Belkin N 1 Vision wireless router > 2. one windows box > 3. one ubuntu 9.10 box > 4. one video streaming box > > The video streaming box is getting video streams form some url; the windows > box is downloading p2p. The problem is that while the downloads are working > on the windows box, the video streaming is getting slower and slower to the > point is starts buffering every 5 seconds. If I kill the downloads, then the > video streaming is getting back to normal. > > Can anybody recommend a plan for scripting a function that would close the > downloads when the streaming box is open and bring them up again when the > streaming stops? > > I am not sure where should I start, please give me some general pointers and > I'll do the work. > If you need more info, just let me know.
Knowing nothing about the streaming box, if you could go by the fact it's turned on/off, you could try some sort of ping to it from the Doze box and stop the P2P if it's up. If there were another way to talk to it while it's up that would tell you if it's streaming or not, then you wouldn't have to turn it off. I'm thinking you would need some good docs on the streamer to know for sure, but you could start by playing around with pinging or trying to connect to various ports to get a handle on what it's doing and see if you could glean something useful from that. If it streams on a known port, you may be able to figure that out remotely by trying to connect to that port. Lots of unknowns here. Afraid that's not much help. _______________________________________________ Perl-Unix-Users mailing list Perl-Unix-Users@listserv.ActiveState.com To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
