Thanks Bill, it actually helps a lot - it is a very good starting point and I believe I have done something very similar in the past ...
Thanks again, jablonsky --- On Sun, 1/3/10, Bill Luebkert <dbec...@roadrunner.com> wrote: > From: Bill Luebkert <dbec...@roadrunner.com> > Subject: Re: [Perl-unix-users] perl script to manage video stream and network > traffic > To: "Dan Jablonsky" <vv_2...@yahoo.com> > Cc: perl-unix-users@listserv.ActiveState.com > Received: Sunday, January 3, 2010, 1:40 PM > 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 > __________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Canada Toolbar: Search from anywhere on the web, and bookmark your favourite sites. Download it now http://ca.toolbar.yahoo.com. _______________________________________________ Perl-Unix-Users mailing list Perl-Unix-Users@listserv.ActiveState.com To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
