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Rhys_Paterson
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January 21, 2009
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General query about FMS 3.5 - limiting access

  • January 21, 2009
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Hey lads,

Just playing around with FMS 3.5 at the moment. We are looking at implementing it in our environment and i just have a few questions.

I want to restrict access to the VOD content based on the users IP address (i.e, depening on where they are comming from in our internal network). Now i know this is possible, but just not really sure how to go about it server side (using the XML Files).

Do i create multiple adaptors with a single virtual host in each, or have just the one adaptor and create multiple virtual hosts?

I would like to create 4 different hosts/adaptors as we have four levels of bandwidth in our organisation. So if you are a LAN user with a heap of bandwidth, you will get content from our LAN VOD folder.

If you are a user in one of our state offices, which have pipes that connect directly to our network, but have a reduced level of bandwidth, you will get content from our State Office VOD folder ect.I am able to tell if the user is a LAN or State Office user depending on what their IP Address is (range).

I'm just not sure how to set up the application/vhost folders..

Could anyone give me a bit of a kickstart in the right direction?

Cheers,
Rhys
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    Anonymous
    January 22, 2009
    FMS server side action script can come handy. You may want to modify default VOD app parse and match incoming connection's IP address. And tell the client to subscribe the lower/higher bitrate version of a desired video.

    Apart from above, have a look at dynamic streaming feature of FMS 3.5; This feature alone can help a client to move to a lower bitrate stream if link bandwidth is not sufficient.
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