deering@PESCADERO.STANFORD.EDU (Steve Deering) (06/25/89)
Release 1.2 of the Stanford IP Multicast software is now available for
anonymous FTP. This software includes kernel modifications for 4.3BSD,
SunOS 4.0 and Ultrix 3.0 to support IP multicasting as specified in
RFC-1054. It also includes an experimental IP multicast routing demon
that implements the Distance-Vector Multicast Routing Protocol (DVMRP),
an earlier version of which is specified in RFC-1075.
This release includes support for the following hardware/OS configurations:
Machines Operating Systems Network Interfaces
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Vax or Microvax 4.3+ or 4.3-tahoe de, qe, sl*, lo
Decstation 3100 Ultrix 3.0 se, lo
Sun 2*, 3 or 4* SunOS 4.0 ie, le, ec*, lo
"4.3+" is Berkeley's 4.3BSD release plus the networking software
released to the public on 4/4/88, available via anonymous
FTP from ucbarpa.berkeley.edu.
"de" is DEC's DEUNA Ethernet interface.
"qe" is DEC's DEQNA Ethernet interface.
"se" is DEC's AMD LANCE Ethernet interface.
"ie" is Sun's Intel 82586 Ethernet interface.
"le" is Sun's AMD LANCE Ethernet interface.
"ec" is Sun's 3Com Ethernet interface.
"sl" is Rick Adams's Serial Line IP (SLIP) driver for 4.3BSD. (Allows
the use of IP multicast addressing on a point-to-point link.)
"lo" is the BSD loopback driver. (Allows the use of IP multicast for
intra-machine IPC, whether or not there are multicast-capable
interfaces present.)
THE SOFTWARE HAS NOT BEEN TESTED ON MACHINES OR INTERFACES MARKED WITH "*".
The 4.3BSD changes require access to the kernel source files. The SunOS
and Ultrix changes require access to only those source files included in
a binary distribution.
I encourage ports to other machines, operating systems, and interfaces.
I would appreciate receiving copies of any changes required to support
other configurations, for inclusion in future releases. I would also
appreciate reports of bugs and suggestions for improvement. Discussion
of changes, bugs, etc. takes place on the VMTP-IP mailing list, which
you may join by sending a message to vmtp-ip-request@gregorio.stanford.edu.
To learn more about this software, fetch the file "ipmulticast.README"
from directory "vmtp-ip" on host gregorio.stanford.edu. The full
software release is available from the same directory, as a compressed
tar file in "ipmulticast.tar.Z", or uncompressed in "ipmulticast.tar".
Steve Deering