From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 15 10:39:53 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA14392 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 10:39:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from main.statsci.com (main.statsci.com [198.145.127.110]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA14385 for ; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 10:39:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from block.statsci.com by main.statsci.com with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #3) id m0tn8ad-000r4LC; Thu, 15 Feb 96 10:39 PST Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by block.statsci.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id KAA27731; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 10:39:34 -0800 Message-Id: <199602151839.KAA27731@block.statsci.com> To: "Garrett A. Wollman" cc: "Ege Rxbekk" , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a multicast router/tunnel In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 15 Feb 1996 11:07:21 -0500." <9602151607.AA11958@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> Reply-to: scott@statsci.com Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 10:39:34 -0800 From: Scott Blachowicz Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk "Garrett A. Wollman" wrote: > You have to set up /etc/mrouted.conf and run mrouted. In more recent > versions, there is an option in /etc/sysconfig to automatically start > mrouted. Speaking of which...are there any decent references that would explain what multicasting is, why one would want to use it, how one would use it, how one would configure it, etc? I gather it provides a means to broadcast to odd groupings of systems that can't be precisely described with regular IP address based broadcasting, but past that I haven't been able to find clues. I've looked at 'man mrouted' but I don't know a lot of the basic terminology and would like to have at least a vague idea as to some general ideas & meanings. This stuff isn't my job, so I don't really need in depth understanding, but I'm curious, nonetheless. Thanx, Scott Blachowicz Ph: 206/283-8802x240 Mathsoft (Data Analysis Products Div) 1700 Westlake Ave N #500 scott@statsci.com Seattle, WA USA 98109 Scott.Blachowicz@seaslug.org