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Re: Why don't we use multicast more often?


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  • From: Andrew Swan <>
  • To: John Zwiebel <>
  • Cc: ,
  • Subject: Re: Why don't we use multicast more often?
  • Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 13:24:09 -0700

John Zwiebel wrote:
> -- MLDv2 and IGMPv3. Its in KAME so "soon" will be in FreeBSD and
> therefore OSX (I hope). Perhaps a little lobbying of the FreeBSD
> folks to incorporate the KAME IGMPv3 and MLDv2 would be in order?
> (I don't know the process)

this was discussed recently on the freebsd-net mailing list.
the kame folks are unwilling to commit igmpv3 and mldv2 back
in to freebsd until the apple intellectual property issues
have been resolved...

for what its worth, linux has had igmpv3 since kernel 2.4.22.

-Andrew




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