On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 08:28:19AM -0700, Matthew Dempsky wrote: > Does anyone still use mrouted(8) or is everyone using dvmrpd(8) now? > If you're still using mrouted(8), why? > > If no one speaks up in defense of mrouted(8), I'm going to propose > that it be unlinked from the build after tree unlock. Currently the > userland-kernel interface for managing multicast routing is hard-coded > to only support 32 interfaces, and it's simpler to fix one routing > daemon than two.
If you plan to start fiddling with that API you should build a test network and see if dvrmpd is able to replace mrouted in all cases. Then I have no issue with killing it but last time I checked dvrmpd was not feature complete. -- :wq Claudio
