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From: hpeyerl@sidney (Herb Peyerl)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Multicast on NetBSD 0.9
Date: 20 Dec 1993 14:45:10 GMT
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Glen Pill (rxtgep@geppc.xx.rmit.edu.au) wrote:
: Has anyone had any luck installing the multicast kernal patches for 
: NetBSD 0.9 ???  It seems to fail on the file if_ed.c...using the supplied
: if_ed.c it bombs out rather badly with a heap of undefined variables, and
: trying to patch my existing if_ed.c with the if_ed.c.patch results in 
: hunk #6 failing and the resulting .rej file shows alot of the mulitcasting
: code.  Has anyone had _any_ luck?????

NetBSD-current has the multicast patches installed and there have been
reports of it working.

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