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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA6353 ; Fri, 08 Jan 93 09:08:07 EST Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!aludra.usc.edu!not-for-mail From: eddy@aludra.usc.edu (George Edmond Eddy) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Multicast update... Date: 10 Jan 1993 13:40:51 -0800 Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Lines: 37 Message-ID: <1iq553INNlfj@aludra.usc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: aludra.usc.edu Keywords: multicast this is just a brief word to update the status of what i have done with/to Steve Deering's ip multi-cast extensions. Over the holidays i got a working kernel at home, i'm a little concerned with my treatment of the mbuf stuff. More specifically, in previous versions mbufs where added to and trimmed from directly with the m_off and m_len structure fields, m_off no longer exists. I used the routine m_adj to adjust mbuf's accordingly. If anyone can impart some words of wisdom i would be grateful 8-). I am now able to join a multicast group... I am now adding the multicast extensions to the 386bsd version of netstat, i've got some bugs to hunt down and fix. Up until now this has all been done on a standalone system 8-/. I have recently procured another 386 and 2 ethernet cards for $150 (not bad eh?) so i will need to do work on the ethernet drivers for the cards i have (3com and WD). So i could actually test the stuff on a wire. Hopefully before too long i will be able to scrounge together a 386 box at work from the Windows army, so i can test the multicast stuff on a "real" network with a few suns. This is my first attempt at doing any kernel work other than just cruising aroundand making minor fixes, so any comment or criticisms will be greatly appreciated. someday i will provide the port to all interested when i become reasonably confident the stuff works at beta-quality. unfortunantly this will take me quite a bit longer than someone that knows what they are doing. adious, for now. -- - rusty rusty@rockwell.com eddy@usc.edu