enable multicast?

[Joel Jaeggli]

On Wed, 21 Jul 2004, Brian Fahrlander wrote:

> On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 17:08, Yang Xiao wrote:
>> Hi,
>> How do I enable multicast on FC2?
>
>    Sorry to have to be the one to tell you but I'll bet no one will
> answer you otherwise.
>
>    Multicast is a great idea to let you 'tune in' things like a radio,
> and it costs the same in bandwidth for one client or several thousands.
> To make things even sweeter, I'm sitting on a multicast ISP who does
> system maintenance via multicast, the first one I've ever seen.
>
>    But don't look for any Linux support for it, Fedora or otherwise.

ipv4 Multicast works fine actually. 2.6 even supports igmp3 and mldv2 
(for ipv6 multicast) for group membership requests. The problem really is 
interdomain multicast support, which frankly isn't getting any better. 
Using multicast on you home network or subnet is trivial and all the 
pieces are there and available.

>    There are howtos that are in excess of 10 years old, a couple of
> people you'll meet that actually _know_ all about it for some reason,
> and one piece of software older than Quake I that can make use of it,
> and you'll find no multicast clients anywhere.  It's a shame; multicast
> is a brilliant idea for the kinds of things like internet radio, but not
> everone supports it....apparently nor does Linux.
>
>    Multicast, RIP.



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