Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 16:31:48 +0100 From: Christoph Sold <christoph.sold@server.i-clue.de> To: Suyog.Vaidya@Vashimail.ltitl.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Regarding Multicast support Message-ID: <3A5C8064.E5425EBA@i-clue.de> References: <652569D0.004AA98E.00@Vashimail.ltitl.com>
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Suyog.Vaidya@Vashimail.ltitl.com schrieb: > > Hello, > Is multicast support inbuilt for FreeBSD3.x and/or FreeBSD4.x and if so, does it > have to be enabled by any means? > Any advice on this please? > > When I do a netstat -g on our FreeBSD3.x machine, it says multicasting not > supported. so@miraculix:~$ cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/ so@miraculix:conf$ grep multicast GENERIC LINT LINT:# MROUTING enables the kernel multicast packet forwarder, which works It seems FreeBSD supports multicasting, but it is not supported with the GENERIC kernel. To enable it, you have to build a custom kernel. See the FreeBSD handbook about that. HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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