Date: 25 Jun 1998 04:06:06 -0400 From: Robert Sanders <rsanders@mindspring.net> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: option MROUTING Message-ID: <kn7m25hpn5.fsf@xena.mindspring.com> In-Reply-To: Terry Lambert's message of "Wed, 24 Jun 1998 08:11:25 %2B0000 (GMT)" References: <Pine.BSF.3.95.980623175255.23321E-100000@orion.webspan.net> <199806240811.BAA21542@usr08.primenet.com>
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Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> writes: > You didn't try very hard at Sprint: Vadim Antonov works there as a > network engineer. Not for quite a while now. He's now working for Pluris, a terabit router startup, and his ex-comrade-in-arms Sean Doran is now working for EBone, a European Internet backbone organization with an interesting philosophy of no overselling. Those were certainly the biggest clueholders at Sprint, but there must be several others still running the show. BBN Planet understood our MBONE request with no trouble. UUnet not only offers MBONE service, they can carry it natively over their dialups (with Ascend's admittedly hackish "I'm not a multicast router, I'm a proxy" technique). I don't see much value for the end-user in enabling MROUTING by default. Anybody who's going to set up mrouted, terminate a tunnel, and do whatever she needs to handle native multicast on her own network should be able to handle a simple kernel compile. People who just need a multicast client have one in FreeBSD right out of the box. regards, -- Robert To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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