Re: multicast/mrouted question

Dan Miller <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> écrivait
news:Xns973ABD6C54E18dananacominccom@xxxxxxxxxxxx:

> My company develops a satellite-network product, and part of our
> distribution is an old multicast router called mrouted. However, I
> note that mrouted hasn't been updated since 1999. We hadn't had any
> requests for multicast in years, and I've mostly forgotten about it.
> Now, however, we have a customer who wants multicast support. I'm
> wondering, though, if there isn't something more common and actually
> supported than that old package??
>
> We're currently working with kernel 2.2, but will be upgrading our
> drivers and other software to kernel 2.6 soon.
>
> - for kernel 2.2, is there anything newer and hopefully better
> supported than mrouted??
>
> - for kernel 2.6, is there anything newer and hopefully better
> supported than mrouted??

Have a look at quagga, a routing daemon derived from the zebra project.

And don't forget to enable multicast features int the kernel.

Regards

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