Re: Anyone using uvlan out there?

2007-09-14 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007, Tim Franklin wrote: > > On Fri, September 14, 2007 4:03 am, Matt Palmer wrote: > > XBox games don't work over a routed network? Please tell me that XBox > > Live isn't just a giant uvlan install. > > XBox Live is regular, routed IP, that doesn't even need to much work to >

Re: Anyone using uvlan out there?

2007-09-14 Thread Tim Franklin
On Fri, September 14, 2007 4:03 am, Matt Palmer wrote: > XBox games don't work over a routed network? Please tell me that XBox > Live isn't just a giant uvlan install. XBox Live is regular, routed IP, that doesn't even need to much work to function from the wrong side of EvilConsumerBroadbandNAT

RE: Anyone using uvlan out there?

2007-09-14 Thread michael.dillon
> Using the libpcap (winpcap for windows users) library, uvlan > listens to a specific ethernet device. If a broadcast frame > is seen, then it is sent off to all the peers so they can add > it to their records and emit the broadcast on their local > network. I doubt that we will be deployi

Re: Anyone using uvlan out there?

2007-09-14 Thread Carlos Friacas
On Fri, 14 Sep 2007, Matt Palmer wrote: On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 07:35:26AM +1000, Steven Haigh wrote: Phone: (03) 90001 6090 - 0412 935 897 Gee you Melbournians are advanced... you've already gone to 11 digit phone numbers... - Matt ...it seems they are closer to the future ground-br

Re: Anyone using uvlan out there?

2007-09-13 Thread Alex Pilosov
On Fri, 14 Sep 2007, Steven Haigh wrote: > From my understanding, this software is pretty much acting like a > bridge, but with endpoints over a routed IP network. So its like l2tpv3 vpn. And, since its based on PC platform, I kind of have to say, in words of Vijay, "It does not scale", and "W

Re: Anyone using uvlan out there?

2007-09-13 Thread Matt Palmer
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 12:33:03PM +1000, Steven Haigh wrote: > Quoting Matt Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 07:35:26AM +1000, Steven Haigh wrote: > >> 2. It doesn't require licensing > > > >Plenty of VPN products out there are FOSS; > > Yeah - I wasn't too sure about thi

Re: Anyone using uvlan out there?

2007-09-13 Thread Steven Haigh
Quoting Matt Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 07:35:26AM +1000, Steven Haigh wrote: From the web site: uvlan is a User-space Virtual Local Area Network. In other words, uvlan peers act as nodes on a network switch. Routing ethernet traffic between peers inteligently. Thus all

Re: Anyone using uvlan out there?

2007-09-13 Thread Matt Palmer
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 07:35:26AM +1000, Steven Haigh wrote: > From the web site: > uvlan is a User-space Virtual Local Area Network. In other words, > uvlan peers act as nodes on a network switch. Routing ethernet > traffic between peers inteligently. Thus allowing for multiple > networks

Re: Anyone using uvlan out there?

2007-09-13 Thread Deepak Jain
How does it work? Using the libpcap (winpcap for windows users) library, uvlan listens to a specific ethernet device. If a broadcast frame is seen, then it is sent off to all the peers so they can add it to their records and emit the broadcast on their local network. Once this happens, the de