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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!library.ucla.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!sunic!trane.uninett.no!eunet.no!EU.net!ieunet!news.ieunet.ie!jkh From: jkh@whisker.hubbard.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Impressions: FreeBSD vs Linux Date: 02 Apr 1994 10:53:12 GMT Organization: Jordan Hubbard Lines: 28 Distribution: world Message-ID: <JKH.94Apr2115312@whisker.hubbard.ie> References: <HJSTEIN.94Mar24111940@sunset.huji.ac.il> <xs-NJYB.dysonj@delphi.com> <CGD.94Mar24142944@erewhon.CS.Berkeley.EDU> <hastyCnLr3L.IB4@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: whisker.hubbard.ie In-reply-to: hasty@netcom.com's message of Fri, 1 Apr 1994 22:42:57 GMT In article <hastyCnLr3L.IB4@netcom.com> hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) writes: For instance, I posted several times asking for multicast support under freebsd and I was told that FreeBSD-current had multicasting. Yet, under close inspection the implementation was incomplete. Well, now hang on! I don't know who told you we had it, but it certainly wasn't anyone on the core team. I know that when you asked me, I referred you back to Garrett, who is our multicast guru. He's got his own plans in this area (which don't involve the stuff recently discussed in freebsd-hackers) and will no doubt make them public when he's got something concrete to say. So yes, NetBSD has it, we are working on it and will certainly make it publically known when there's something ready to run. I'm aware that having a feature available in one release and not another can sometimes be irritating, but the two groups do things their own way, and not always in sync. These are volunteer efforts, and folks do the things that interest them. If someone else wants to do a decent multicast implementation and throw it at Garrett (who may or may not get to it himself anytime soon), I'm sure he'd be more than happy to look at it! Jordan -- Jordan K. Hubbard FreeBSD core team Electric Bivalves Anonymous On the net, no one can hear you scream.