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- From: eddy@aludra.usc.edu (George Edmond Eddy)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Multicast update...
- Date: 10 Jan 1993 13:40:51 -0800
- Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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- Message-ID: <1iq553INNlfj@aludra.usc.edu>
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- Keywords: multicast
-
-
- this is just a brief word to update the status of what i have done
- with/to Steve Deering's ip multi-cast extensions. Over the holidays
- i got a working kernel at home, i'm a little concerned with my treatment
- of the mbuf stuff. More specifically, in previous versions mbufs where
- added to and trimmed from directly with the m_off and m_len structure
- fields, m_off no longer exists. I used the routine m_adj to adjust
- mbuf's accordingly. If anyone can impart some words of wisdom i would
- be grateful 8-). I am now able to join a multicast group...
-
- I am now adding the multicast extensions to the 386bsd version of
- netstat, i've got some bugs to hunt down and fix.
-
- Up until now this has all been done on a standalone system 8-/. I
- have recently procured another 386 and 2 ethernet cards for $150 (not
- bad eh?) so i will need to do work on the ethernet drivers for the
- cards i have (3com and WD). So i could actually test the stuff on
- a wire. Hopefully before too long i will be able to scrounge together
- a 386 box at work from the Windows army, so i can test the multicast
- stuff on a "real" network with a few suns.
-
- This is my first attempt at doing any kernel work other than just cruising
- aroundand making minor fixes, so any comment or criticisms will be
- greatly appreciated.
-
- someday i will provide the port to all interested when i become reasonably
- confident the stuff works at beta-quality. unfortunantly this will take
- me quite a bit longer than someone that knows what they are doing.
-
- adious, for now.
-
- --
-
- - rusty
-
- rusty@rockwell.com
- eddy@usc.edu
-