[4290] in linux-net channel archive
Re: Multicast routing protocols
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Delbert Matlock)
Wed Sep 4 00:14:24 1996
From: Delbert.Matlock@teksouth.com (Delbert Matlock)
To: Andrew Romanenko <andrew@cca.usart.ru>
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
Date: Tue, 03 Sep 1996 20:29:59 -0400
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.93.960903181729.2742A-100000@linux.cca.usart.ru>
On Tue, 3 Sep 1996 18:22:58 -0600 (GMT+6), you wrote:
>Hello Mike,
>
>On Tue, 3 Sep 1996, Mike Kilburn wrote:
>
>> >
>> > The three groups in the CC feild would probably be VERY
>> > good place to start and those there would be very
>> > interested in patches to gated for Linux.
>> >
>> > HTH, JimL
>>
>> RedHat has had Linux patches for gated for quite a while now.
>
>The patches is for unicast routing protocols and not for multicast
>ones.
As of gated 3.6 Alpha 1, multicast support in gated for Linux (and
multicast support in gated in general) was listed as a "work in
progress". The end goal is for gated to be able to take over all the
functions of mrouted, but there is quite a bit of work to go yet.
The last time I messed with gated 3.6 Alpha 2, I was able to get igmp
but not dvmrp support to compile. Give it time, or, better yet if you
have some time, lend some help. :)
Alan Cox has said in the past something to the effect that some
reasons multicast support has lagged on his development priorities is
1) lack of wide spread interest, 2) lack of a good testing platform,
and 3) lack of people submitting fixes. Problem 1 seems to be fixing
itself, slowly. I've had contact with several people lately who
expressed interest in multicast support. This may lead to the
solution of 2. Now if we can find some more programmers with lots of
hardware (or give them access to some of our hardware), we may be able
to fix problem 3.
--dkm
http://www.teksouth.com/linux/multicast/
