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To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
Cc: Afonso Miu <amiu@umich.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: How to turn on multicast support?
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From: Dave Marquardt <marquard@zilker.net>
Date: 30 Apr 1998 13:32:22 -0500
In-Reply-To: Doug White's message of "Wed, 29 Apr 1998 16:29:58 -0700 (PDT)"
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Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> writes:
> On Tue, 28 Apr 1998, Afonso Miu wrote:
> 
> > I am running FreeBSD 2.2.5. I will to have my network which consists of
> > 20 FreeBSD to support multicast.
> 
> Multicast is built in by default.  A better question is if your network
> supports native Multicast or if you need to run mrouted.

A few releases of FreeBSD back (I don't know if it's like this now)
some Ethernet drivers supported multicast and others didn't.  So you
need to check that out also.

-Dave

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