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Date:      Sat, 30 Jan 1999 21:34:40 -0500
From:      "Donald J . Maddox" <dmaddox@conterra.com>
To:        "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@CA.Sandia.GOV>
Cc:        dmaddox@conterra.com, Charlie ROOT <root@freebsd9.lums.edu.pk>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Query about multicasting
Message-ID:  <19990130213440.A485@dmaddox.conterra.com>
In-Reply-To: <199901310227.SAA07365@stennis.ca.sandia.gov>; from Bruce A. Mah on Sat, Jan 30, 1999 at 06:27:29PM -0800
References:  <19990130171437.A5464@dmaddox.conterra.com> <199901310227.SAA07365@stennis.ca.sandia.gov>

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On Sat, Jan 30, 1999 at 06:27:29PM -0800, Bruce A. Mah wrote:
> If memory serves me right, "Donald J . Maddox" wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 31, 1999 at 02:40:07AM +0500, Charlie ROOT wrote:
> > > Your help page on multicasting on freebsd.org says that to enable
> > > multicasting supprot in your kernel we only need to recompile with
> > > mrouting option and set mrouted_enable as yes in /etc/rc.conf!
> > > 
> > > Apart from that there are other option in re.conf namely
> > > router=
> > > router_enable= 
> > > 
> > > Don't we have to set them as "mrouted@ and "YES" respectively?
> > 
> > No, those lines deal with starting the normal 'routed' (for unicast).
> 
> Just one point of clarification, in case the original poster wasn't 
> aware...it's not necessary to rebuild a kernel to use IP multicast 
> *applications*.  Recompiling is only necessary to use a FreeBSD machine as an 
> IP multicast *router*.

Thanks for the clarification.  I didn't realize that myself :-)

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