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From: felawka@sitka.triumf.ca (Larry Felawka)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Multicast support in FreeBSD?
Date: 17 Mar 1994 20:14:29 GMT
Organization: TRIUMF, Vancouver BC
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In article <hastyCMtMzs.Goz@netcom.com>, hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) writes:
|> 
|> I know that NetBSD-current supports multi-cast so I am wondering
|> about FreeBSD if it supports multi-cast.
|> 
|> It appears that radio is a straight-forward application to port to 
|> freebsd in fact it works on my home systems and I am looking forward
|> to broadcasting. 

I'll bet that your network manager isn't looking forward to it!  It is
my impression that most games that do multi-casting get banned pretty
quickly.

Larry Felawka