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From: sgccseh@citec.oz.au (Steve Hocking)
Subject: Re: Multicast update...
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Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 05:41:39 GMT
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eddy@aludra.usc.edu (George Edmond Eddy) writes:


>this is just a brief word to update the status of what i have done
>with/to Steve Deering's ip multi-cast extensions.  Over the holidays
>i got a working kernel at home, i'm a little concerned with my treatment
>of the mbuf stuff.  More specifically, in previous versions mbufs where
>added to and trimmed from directly with the m_off and m_len structure
>fields, m_off no longer exists.  I used the routine m_adj to adjust
>mbuf's accordingly.  If anyone can impart some words of wisdom i would
>be grateful 8-).  I am now able to join a multicast group...
>someday i will provide the port to all interested when i become reasonably
>confident the stuff works at beta-quality.  unfortunantly this will take
>me quite a bit longer than someone that knows what they are doing.

>adious, for now.

>--

>- rusty

>rusty@rockwell.com
>eddy@usc.edu

	Let us know when you're finished, I've been tinkering with the OSI &
CCITT code from the net-2 release, but have yet to get the thing to see the
ES-IS packets that I believe are running around out network. Harvard Eidnes
was doing some work with this.


	Cheers,


	Stephen
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Stephen Hocking                                    sgccseh@citecuc.citec.oz.au
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Stephen Hocking                                    sgccseh@citecuc.citec.oz.au