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From: John Hay <jhay@meraka.org.za>
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Subject: Re: De-orbitting mrouted
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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
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