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 :-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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