From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 30 18:34:44 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA24522 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 30 Jan 1999 18:34:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hawaii.conterra.com (hawaii.conterra.com [209.12.164.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA24516 for ; Sat, 30 Jan 1999 18:34:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from myself@conterra.com) Received: from dmaddox.conterra.com (dmaddox.conterra.com [209.12.169.48]) by hawaii.conterra.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA15486; Sat, 30 Jan 1999 21:34:40 -0500 (EST) Received: (from myself@localhost) by dmaddox.conterra.com (8.9.2/8.9.1) id VAA00501; Sat, 30 Jan 1999 21:34:40 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from myself) Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 21:34:40 -0500 From: "Donald J . Maddox" To: "Bruce A. Mah" Cc: dmaddox@conterra.com, Charlie ROOT , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Query about multicasting Message-ID: <19990130213440.A485@dmaddox.conterra.com> Reply-To: dmaddox@conterra.com References: <19990130171437.A5464@dmaddox.conterra.com> <199901310227.SAA07365@stennis.ca.sandia.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <199901310227.SAA07365@stennis.ca.sandia.gov>; from Bruce A. Mah on Sat, Jan 30, 1999 at 06:27:29PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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