mbone/mdp 1.9a5nb1 NetBSD

The Multicast Dissemination Protocol (MDP) is a protocol framework and software toolkit for reliable multicasting data objects. A primary design goal of MDP is to provide a reliable multicast protocol approach which is suitable for reliable dissemination of data over both wireless and wired networks.

MDP software has been demonstrated across a range of network architecture and heterogeneous conditions including; the worldwide Internet MBone, bandwidth and routing asymmetric network connections, high delay satellite networks, and mobile, radio networks. MDP version 2, the latest software release and ongoing work, integrates numerous multicast protocol advances including highly robust, packet-based erasure correction techniques and adaptive group timing mechanisms.

The present MDPv2 software release has a defined API library and several example working applications including a multicast file transfer applications and a very basic multicast chat application. To learn more and/or download the software see the following sections.