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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!foxhound.dsto.gov.au!fang.dsto.gov.au!yoyo.aarnet.edu.au!news.adelaide.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!news.kei.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!wupost!csus.edu!netcom.com!hasty From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Subject: Re: Multicasting [Was Re: Impressions: FreeBSD vs Linux] Message-ID: <hastyCnpvy1.5vy@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <JKH.94Apr2115312@whisker.hubbard.ie> <hastyCnnJ1D.9Ey@netcom.com> <JKH.94Apr3001202@whisker.hubbard.ie> Date: Mon, 4 Apr 1994 04:18:01 GMT Lines: 52 In article <JKH.94Apr3001202@whisker.hubbard.ie> jkh@whisker.hubbard.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes: >In article <hastyCnnJ1D.9Ey@netcom.com> hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) writes: > 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 :) > >Ok, just so long as everyone realizes that this is not part of the >official FreeBSD, or even -current, source tree at the moment. It's >entirely something Amancio has done custom to his own system. It would >be wrong to say that `FreeBSD has multicast support' in any general >context. > >Thanks. One more time multicasting is in freebsd-current;however, the implementation is incomplete. However, folks if anyone is interested in a functionable multicasting implementation you have two recourses: 1) get netbsd-current 2) read freebsd's hacker mailing archive available at freebsd.cdrom.com Why is multicasting so important? if you are connected to the internet with a reasonable bandwith we can listen to internet chat -- for instance the ietf meetings held at Seattle, Washington. We can establish local network stations, voice conferencing and when the hardware support for video compression gets here we will be able to hold video conferences or just simply lay back and watch a show. The graphics boards to support video or a 32 vga feature connector are just about hitting the market and codec's will soon follow. All this takes time so it is kind of nice to have multicast to start sorting out the problems with the multicast apps in our *bsd systems. So while we wait for the "official" release of multicasting for FreeBSD whatever that entails we can play today at least I am :) 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