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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!library.ucla.edu!csulb.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com!hasty From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Subject: Re: Impressions: FreeBSD vs Linux Message-ID: <hastyCnnJ1D.9Ey@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <CGD.94Mar24142944@erewhon.CS.Berkeley.EDU> <hastyCnLr3L.IB4@netcom.com> <JKH.94Apr2115312@whisker.hubbard.ie> Date: Sat, 2 Apr 1994 21:44:01 GMT Lines: 24 In article <JKH.94Apr2115312@whisker.hubbard.ie> jkh@whisker.hubbard.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes: >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 I ask Garrett and he forgot Jim Lowe's posting to the hacker's mailing list he did point me to freefall where I couldn't find any code for multicasting. At any rate thanks guys, I do have multicasting working on my system :) BTW: this is not a flame on FreeBSD nor NetBSD. Amancio -- FREE unix, gcc, tcp/ip, X, open-look, interviews, tcl/tk, MIME, midi, sound at freebsd.cdrom.com:/pub/FreeBSD Amancio Hasty, Consultant | Home: (415) 495-3046 | e-mail hasty@netcom.com | ftp-site depository of all my work: ahasty@cisco.com | sunvis.rtpnc.epa.gov:/pub/386bsd/X