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From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr)
Subject: Re: Impressions: FreeBSD vs Linux
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References: <CGD.94Mar24142944@erewhon.CS.Berkeley.EDU> <hastyCnLr3L.IB4@netcom.com> <JKH.94Apr2115312@whisker.hubbard.ie>
Date: Sat, 2 Apr 1994 21:44:01 GMT
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In article <JKH.94Apr2115312@whisker.hubbard.ie> jkh@whisker.hubbard.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes:
>In article <hastyCnLr3L.IB4@netcom.com> hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) writes:
>   For instance, I posted several times asking for multicast support
>   under freebsd and I was told that FreeBSD-current had multicasting.
>   Yet, under close inspection the implementation was incomplete.
>
>Well, now hang on!  I don't know who told you we had it, but it
>certainly wasn't anyone on the core team.  I know that when you asked

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 :)

BTW: this is not a flame on FreeBSD nor NetBSD. 

	Amancio


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