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From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
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Well, we used to have an mrouted capable kernel by default however
it got taken  out for some reason... Perhaps, someone from the FreeBSD
core team care to explain?

	Regards,
	Amancio





>From The Desk Of lamaster@george.arc.nasa.gov :
> 
> > My statement was in reference to NT's ip stack not being capable of
> > supporting mrouted so the next logical thing is to get a 
> > tcp/ip stack which can support mrouted .
> 
> I see what you mean now.  I have no idea if alternative stacks
> are available as they were for Windows.  It seem unlikely, 
> because TCP/IP is supported by default, and isn't considered
> an extra layer as it was under Windows 3.1, requiring the "Winsock"
> solution.
> 
> Also, as Steve Casner said, the real question is whether or not
> the OS/stack combination supports multicast forwarding, not just 
> multicast.
> 
> I haven't done a survey, but, AFAIK, the only system that supports
> forwarding *by default* is Irix.  Even with FreeBSD, you have
> to recompile the kernel that way, and, with Solaris, you have
> to patch the default release with one or two recompiled modules.
> 
> SGI may have its problems, but, it is cool that they have been
> in multicast for such a long time.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Hugh LaMaster
> 
>