Lawrence wrote: > what is mrouted? where to get it? >
mrouted (multicast router daemon) is the daemon you run to enable your machine to be a part of the MBONE. It forwards IP multicast packets via a unicast "tunnel" past non-IP-Multicast-aware routers to another machine running mrouted or a router that can handle IP Multicast packets. The existance of the MBONE is rather ingenious: since most Internet routers can't handle IP multicast yet, the MBONE (Multicast backBONE) started out as a small (but now large) collection machines running mrouted and the unicast tunnels between them. As IP multicast becomes more common in routers, the MBONE will melt into the Internet as running mrouted will become unnecessary. I believe a similar approach will be taken for IPv6 and so on. Where you get it depends on the platform, I didn't look but there might be Debian package for it. There is a good collection of references at: http://www-itg.lbl.gov/mbone#reflinks HTH, Keith -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
