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MBONE tools availability and info.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christian Daudt)
Sun Feb 18 05:09:02 1996
From: csd@microplex.com (Christian Daudt)
To: linux-multicast@www.linux.org.uk, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 1996 00:06:30 -0800 (PST)
Cc: iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox)
Hail all,
I have been playing with multicasting on my Linux box a lot recently,
and things are starting to look good. I've been running mrouted, sd, vat,
vic, nv, wb, and even vcr (for those of you that don't know, these are
all mbone tools) for over a month now. It's getting better day by day, up
to the point were I feel confident in making my findings available to
everyone.
Please take a look at the following URL:
http://www.microplex.com/~csd/linux/mbone.html
to see a detailed explanation of what has been done so far. Work is far
from finished, but I feel that other people can benefit from this now. I
still haven't added all packages to the webpage link. If you need
something that isn't available from that page, tell me and I'll try to
generate other packages (i.e. non-elf or with static libraries). I have a
development tree for most of these packages, but I haven't made the
sources available yet. This is because I first will try to send patches
back to the package maintainers with the linux differences and ask them to
add linux support to their base distribution (as the linux versions become
stable). If someone *really* needs the source right now, email me about
it.
I would like to ask every linux user that has a mbone connection to
try these out and report any good/bad experiences back. Lets make Linux
the best mbone tool out there !
Cheers,
Christian.
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Christian Daudt (csd@microplex.com) Software Engineer
Microplex Systems Ltd. URL: http://www.microplex.com/
"You can tell how far we have to go, when FORTRAN is the language of
supercomputers." -- Steven Feiner
