Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 10:47:42 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: lamaster@george.arc.nasa.gov Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Your message of "Fri, 25 Jul 1997 17:53:59 PDT Message-ID: <199707281747.KAA11373@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 28 Jul 1997 10:33:22 PDT." <199707281733.KAA13863@george.arc.nasa.gov>
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Well, we used to have an mrouted capable kernel by default however it got taken out for some reason... Perhaps, someone from the FreeBSD core team care to explain? Regards, Amancio >From The Desk Of lamaster@george.arc.nasa.gov : > > > My statement was in reference to NT's ip stack not being capable of > > supporting mrouted so the next logical thing is to get a > > tcp/ip stack which can support mrouted . > > I see what you mean now. I have no idea if alternative stacks > are available as they were for Windows. It seem unlikely, > because TCP/IP is supported by default, and isn't considered > an extra layer as it was under Windows 3.1, requiring the "Winsock" > solution. > > Also, as Steve Casner said, the real question is whether or not > the OS/stack combination supports multicast forwarding, not just > multicast. > > I haven't done a survey, but, AFAIK, the only system that supports > forwarding *by default* is Irix. Even with FreeBSD, you have > to recompile the kernel that way, and, with Solaris, you have > to patch the default release with one or two recompiled modules. > > SGI may have its problems, but, it is cool that they have been > in multicast for such a long time. > > > Regards, > Hugh LaMaster > >
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