Appendix E - CU-SeeMe Configuration File

This is the CU-SeeMe configuration file for the CU-SeeMe reflector that has been used for the Saint John String Quartet MBONE event (see Chapter 8). The CU-SeeMe reflector comes with an example confuration file that is very well explained and even if this example will help you, it doesn't explain everything.

For making this config file, the people at Cornell have proved to very useful and very friendly. The reflector also comes with a big README file that explains all the various parameters you can use in the config file.

The rest of is just running the reflector itself, grabbing a CU-SeeMe client (See Appendice A) and connecting to it from your PC running Windows or your Mac. This is in my opinion, the best and the easiest way for your PC and Mac users to enjoy the MBONE.

Thanks to Dwight Spencer from University of New-Brunswick for providing me this configuration file.

Example of CU-SeeMe configuration file:

; ADMIT-BCC-CLIENT ip-address
;	cause reflector to send a blind carbon copy of all
;	streams to another reflector
ADMIT-BCC-CLIENT  131.202.70.81

; NV-MC-PORT port-num   UDP port number to communcicate with nv via multicast
NV-MC-PORT 55842

;                       ttl and multicast addr for sending CU-SeeMe video
;                       to  nv via Mbone.  If NV-MC-IN and OUT are both
;                       specified, multicast address must be identical.
NV-MC-OUT 127 224.2.158.58

; VAT-MC-PORT port      UDP port number to communcicate with vat via multicast
VAT-MC-PORT 43080

; VAT-MC-IN multicast-addr
;                       multicast addr for receiving vat audio from mbone
VAT-MC-IN 224.2.158.58

; VAT-MC-OUT ttl multicast-addr
;                       ttl and multicast addr for sending audio to vat via
;                       Mbone.  If VAT-MC-IN and OUT are both
;                       specified, multicast address must be identical.
VAT-MC-OUT 127 224.2.158.58

; VAT-CONF-ID id        conference id to use with vat
VAT-CONF-ID 4192

;
*****************************************************************************
;                             START CONFIGURATION
;
*****************************************************************************

MOTD
        CU-SeeMe for University of New Brunswick, Version 4.00B3
              Providing CUSM services to the UNB Community
//

; Specify your conference manager machine
CONF-MGR 131.202.3.18

; Name the machine where we can run refmon
REFMON 131.202.3.18

CONF-ID 0 We are using a conferenc ID of 0, please change your conference id.
//

CAP 80 1 Max transmission exceeds limit of 80 Kbits/sec. No reconnect for 1
minute.
//
;
;

MAX-PARTICIPANTS 20 Maximum participants. Please try your CUSM client on
cspace.unb.ca 
//

MAX-SENDERS 15 Maximum senders. Please try your CUSM client on cspace.unb.ca
//

; can keep this sort of low, to keep bandwidth down
MAX-LURKERS 20 Maximum lurkers. Please try your CUSM client on cspace.unb.ca
//

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