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To: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com>
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Subject: Re: multicast on ep0 device 
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Date: Wed, 6 Sep 1995 10:26:11 PDT
From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
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In message <199509060257.TAA02686@ref.tfs.com> you write:
>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..

At the moment, this is not true; you need one physical multicast-capable 
interface.  Anders Klemets, a summer intern at PARC, has some modifications
that will make this no longer true (but need more testing so far =)

And, the question was about using the tools on a machine which was on a subnet 
that already had a multicast router on it, not about using them on a machine 
which was the multicast router...

  Bill