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From: earle@isolar.Tujunga.CA.US (Greg Earle)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: MBONE/Multicast on Linux or FreeBSD
Followup-To: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Date: 20 Dec 1994 19:27:37 -0800
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References: <marcus.fosker.121.0011072E@rutherford.ac.uk> <MICHAELV.94Dec16205734@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> <JUN.94Dec19101636@fox.fax.iwa.fujixerox.co.jp> <hastyD136o5.6tt@netcom.com>
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In article <hastyD136o5.6tt@netcom.com>,
Amancio Hasty Jr <hasty@netcom.com> wrote:
>In article <JUN.94Dec19101636@fox.fax.iwa.fujixerox.co.jp>
>jun@fox.fax.iwa.fujixerox.co.jp (Junichi Kurokawa) writes:
>>>>>>> "M" == Michael L VanLoon <michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> writes:
>>
>> M> In article <marcus.fosker.121.0011072E@rutherford.ac.uk>
>> M> marcus.fosker@rutherford.ac.uk (Marcus Fosker) writes:
>> M> Does anybody have any experience of doing this? Has anybody managed
>> M> to get either Linux or FreeBSD to receive multicasts?
>>
>> M> NetBSD has full multicast support.
>>
>> FreeBSD has had multicast support.
>>
>> You have to go through a reconfig procedure to enable the feature, though.
>
> Yep, I have while I was on assigment at Cisco, had my FreeBSD
> receiving / sending IP Multicast messages and, in fact, we used my
> box to troubleshoot Cisco's IP Multicast backbone. vat and nv
> worked fine. One word of caution; vat is currently being
> released on binary form only, so I am not sure that vat will work with
> either NetBSD or Linux.
A couple of points:
(1) Remember that NetBSD 1.0 runs on several architectures (when *IS* someone
going to get the ball rolling to rename all these *.386bsd.* newsgroups?!?)
In particular, NetBSD/SPARC has a complete set of MBONE tools available.
(2) Although "vat" and "sd" aren't available in source form, the other tools
such as "imm", "ivs", "nv" and the new "vic" *are* available in source,
and readily port to (at least) NetBSD 1.0.
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