Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 13:49:52 -0700 From: Andrew Swan <aswan@cs.berkeley.edu> To: M?nica Domingues <monicadomingues@hotmail.com>, suz@crl.hitachi.co.jp, freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: IGMPv3 (was Re: pim6sd) Message-ID: <20040428204952.GA5701@cs.berkeley.edu> In-Reply-To: <20040428172529.GC38871@empiric.dek.spc.org> References: <BAY14-F38tTuDenY1fl0002fc3a@hotmail.com> <20040428172529.GC38871@empiric.dek.spc.org>
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Bruce M Simpson wrote: > FreeBSD doesn't implement Source-Specific Multicast yet, to the best of > my knowledge. > > Someone at Berkeley was working on an IGMPv3 stack a while back, though, > but it was for FreeBSD 4.x. i was able to apply those patches to 5.1-RELEASE without too much trouble but there is a more complete and current implementation in kame. just the igmpv3 portion of kame was split out as a separate patch for netbsd available here: http://www-sop.inria.fr/planete/Hitoshi.Asaeda/igmpv3/ as of last fall, kame was waiting for the igmpv3 sockets api to be published as an rfc (it was an internet-draft at the time) to merge igmpv3 into the core bsd distributions. (see http://www.kame.net/roadmap-2003.html). in january, the api draft was published as rfc 3678. what is the process by which code is merged from kame to freebsd? is it just a matter of somebody extracting the appropriate patches and submitting them? -Andrew
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