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Date:      Fri, 24 Feb 1995 08:32:25 +0300 (????)
From:      Dmitry Khrustalev <dima@sunny.bog.msu.su>
To:        Thomas Yeh <tyeh@tss.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Does FreeBSD really support IP multicast?
Message-ID:  <Pine.SOL.3.91.950224082434.29403A-100000@sunny>
In-Reply-To: <9502240307.AA00400@sprite.93net>

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On Thu, 23 Feb 1995, Thomas Yeh wrote:

> I tried to plug my FreeBSD 2.0 notebook to a multicast LAN. It does
> not seem to work. When I did "netstat -g", it said "this isn't supported yet".
> Then I ping this notebook from a Solaris 2.3 Sparc machine by
> "/usr/sbin/ping -s 224.0.0.1", I got no reply from the portible.
> 
> All the unicast and broadcast features are functioning.
> 
> Am I missing something? 
> 

Ethernet multicasts are not supported by ze driver. This is your problem.

> My routing table looks like this: (by "netstat -r")
> 
> Internet:
> Destination     Gateway         Flags   Refs    Use   Interface
> default         160.101.93.2     UGS     0      3      ze0
> localhost       localhost        UH      0      1210   lo0
> 160.101.93      link#2           UC      0      0      ze0
> 160.101.93.2    0:0:c:7:a0:c0    UHL     1      0      ze0
> 224             link#2           UCS     0      0      ze0
> 



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