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From: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com>
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Subject: Re: multicast on ep0 device
To: fenner@parc.xerox.com (Bill Fenner)
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 1995 19:57:13 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: bah6f@phil.cs.virginia.edu, questions@freebsd.org, babkin@hq.icb.chel.su
In-Reply-To: <95Sep5.194112pdt.177475@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> from "Bill Fenner" at Sep 5, 95 07:41:01 pm
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I had the impression that you don't actually need mcast support unless you are
planning on sending it around your local net as a multicast..
if you're using one machine, it's probably possible to just be on the end 
of a  pipeline into your site and not bother to multicast around your site.

> 
> In message <9509011708.AA25839@phil.cs.Virginia.EDU> you write:
> >I'm trying to get a FreeBSD box (2.1.0-SNAP) running some of the MBONE
> >tools.  (sd, vat, nv, etc)  It doesn't seem to want to do it, though.
> >
> >If I look at the ethernet device (ep0) I see
> >ep0: flags=863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,SIMPLEX> mtu 1500
> 
> There is an ep driver that reports itself as multicast-capable floating 
> around, but it hasn't made it into -current yet, for some reason.  Perhaps 
> someone else on the list saved the diffs last time they got posted?...
> 
>   Bill
> 
>