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= rat =

== Availability and IPv6 support ==

|| '''Name''' || '''IPv6 support''' || '''Supported operating systems''' ||
|| [[http://www-mice.cs.ucl.ac.uk/multimedia/software/rat/|rat]] || included || FreeBSD, HP-UX, IRIX, Linux, NetBSD, Solaris, SunOS, Windows 95/NT.   ||

== Description ==

IPv4/v6 Multicast and unicast audio conferencing tool.   RAT is a network audio tool that allows users to particpate in  audio conferences over the internet. These can be between two  participants directly, or between a group of participants on a  common multicast group.  RAT features sender based loss mitigation  mechanisms and receiver based audio repair techniques to compensate  for packet loss, and load adaption in response to host performance.

== Comments ==



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== Usage information ==

== Categories ==

CategoryApps, CategoryAppsmbone, CategoryAppsmultimedia

== Source of information ==