Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 14:37:55 +0200 From: John Hay <jhay@meraka.org.za> To: Bruce M Simpson <bms@incunabulum.net> Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.org, fenner@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: De-orbitting mrouted Message-ID: <20060928123755.GA34073@zibbi.meraka.csir.co.za> In-Reply-To: <451B9C11.2030901@incunabulum.net> References: <451B9C11.2030901@incunabulum.net>
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On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 10:55:29AM +0100, Bruce M Simpson wrote: > Hi, > > I think it would be a good idea if we de-orbit /usr/sbin/mrouted in > 7-CURRENT. Several reasons: > > 1. DVMRP is not specified for any new multicast installations; PIM is > the de-facto standard now. > 2. The code generates warnings during a buildworld (see bin/71633) > 3. Given point (1) it probably doesn't belong in the base system; there > is more interest in multicast these days because of things like > zeroconf, however, DVMRP no longer belongs in a PIM world. > > What say thee? Well what is there to do ipv4 multicast routing then? For ipv6 I have been using the net/mcast-tools package with pim6sd and pim6dd, but it seems that we are a bit thin in the ipv4 field... net/xorp maybe, although it looks like an overkill... I haven't tried it myself though. John -- John Hay -- John.Hay@meraka.csir.co.za / jhay@FreeBSD.org
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