Subject: Re: patches for IPv4 PIM
To: Emmanuel Dreyfus <manu@NetBSD.org>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: tech-net
Date: 08/27/2004 10:58:35
On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 09:46:50PM +0200, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
> Hello everybody
> 
> Pavlin Radoslavov has set up the patches to bring IPv4 PIM support to
> our kernel. This feature has been missing for a while (there is just a
> patchkit against 1.6 available), so let's not miss the opportunity.
> 
> The patches are available here:
> http://www.icir.org/pavlin/.private/netbsd/README
> http://www.icir.org/pavlin/.private/netbsd/sys.20040826.patch
> http://www.icir.org/pavlin/.private/netbsd/netstat.20040826.patch
> http://www.icir.org/pavlin/.private/netbsd/pim.h.20040826
> http://www.icir.org/pavlin/.private/netbsd/pim_var.h.20040826
> 
> Additionnaly, there is pim(4) and multicast(4) to import from FreeBSD,
> and options(4) to update.
> 
> Coule someone knowledgable in that area of the kernel review the
> patches? If nobody complain, I plan to check in that code in our tree
> around septmember 5th

Note that I'm running older version of these patches on a 1.6.2 router, without
problems.
I'd like to see this in too ...

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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