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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!news.alpha.net!news.mathworks.com!newshost.marcam.com!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!olivea!news.hal.COM!decwrl!netcomsv!netcom.com!hasty From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Subject: Re: MBONE/Multicast on Linux or FreeBSD Message-ID: <hastyD136o5.6tt@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <marcus.fosker.121.0011072E@rutherford.ac.uk> <MICHAELV.94Dec16205734@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> <JUN.94Dec19101636@fox.fax.iwa.fujixerox.co.jp> Date: Tue, 20 Dec 1994 01:55:17 GMT Lines: 29 In article <JUN.94Dec19101636@fox.fax.iwa.fujixerox.co.jp> jun@fox.fax.iwa.fujixerox.co.jp (Junichi Kurokawa) writes: >>>>>> "M" == Michael L VanLoon <michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> writes: > > M> In article <marcus.fosker.121.0011072E@rutherford.ac.uk> > M> marcus.fosker@rutherford.ac.uk (Marcus Fosker) writes: Does > M> anybody have any experience of doing this? Has anybody managed to > M> get either Linux or FreeBSD to receive multicasts? > > M> NetBSD has full multicast support. > >FreeBSD has had multicast support. > >You have to go through a reconfig procedure to enable the feature, >though. Yeap, I have while I was on assigment at Cisco, had my FreeBSD receiving / sending IP Multicast messages and in fact we used my box to troubleshoot Cisco's IP Multicasat backbone. vat and nv worked fine. One word of cautioned, vat is currently being released on binary form only so I am not sure that vat will work with either NetBSD or Linux. Cheers, Amancio -- FREE unix, gcc, tcp/ip, X, open-look, netaudio, tcl/tk, MIME, midi,sound at freebsd.cdrom.com:/pub/FreeBSD Amancio Hasty, Consultant Home: (415) 495-3046 e-mail hasty@netcom.com