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From: wollman@sadye.emba.uvm.edu (Garrett Wollman)
Subject: Re: Whats up with multicast support?
Message-ID: <1993Mar27.221831.13998@uvm.edu>
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Organization: University of Vermont, EMBA Computer Facility
References: <BOB.93Mar26152415@benton.prepress.com>
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1993 22:18:31 GMT
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In article <BOB.93Mar26152415@benton.prepress.com> bob@prepress.com (Robert Crowe) writes:
>What (if any) work is being done on adding multicast support into the
>386bsd kernal?
>If there has been progress made, could some kind sole point me to an
>ftp site ( or mail me )?
I have made one alphaish release of the work that I have done on
multicasting. One down side is that you have to use my Ethernet
driver for it to work...
wollman@tsornin(1)$ netstat -ia
Name Mtu Network Address Ipkts Ierrs Opkts Oerrs Coll
ie0 1500 <Link>08.00.6a.81.14.15 825387 19 61204 0 4
ie0 1500 StarLAN tsornin.emba.uv 825387 19 61204 0 4
ALL-ROUTERS.MCAST.N
OSPF-ALL.MCAST.NET
RIP2-ROUTERS.MCAST.
DVMRP.MCAST.NET
ALL-SYSTEMS.MCAST.N
lo0 1536 <Link> 525 0 525 0 0
lo0 1536 loopback localhost 525 0 525 0 0
ALL-SYSTEMS.MCAST.N
Multicast routing is sort of working with DVMRP. I'm hoping to see an
implementation of either MOSPF or CBT soon so that I can start out
with a cleaner slate... I can't tell if our MBONE connection is
working correctly right now, or I could be more definite.
ftp tsornin.emba.uvm.edu
cd 386BSD
get multicast-alpha.tar.Z
get multicast-netstat.tar.Z
get ie-driver.tar.Z
close
open gregorio.stanford.edu
cd pub/vmtp-ip
(get anything else from there)
Note that this code does NOT have the new IP encapsulation form of
tunneling; I haven't had a chance to get this code yet, and probably
won't until after the IETF.
(For those who look at the netstat listing and wonder what I'd doing
running a unicast routing process on this system, given my public
statements about the practice, I will have to say that I'm just
fiddling with GateD, and it makes a nice periodic source of multicast
packets...)
-GAWollman
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