Subject: fwd: Re: Is Solaris 2.6 kernel PIM capable?

From: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 11:16:13 -0800 (PST)

Here is a message forwarded from Dave Comay, on Nov. 19

Subject: Re: Is Solaris 2.6 kernel PIM capable?
From: David Comay <[email-masked]>
To: Shishir Jain <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 09:49:44 -0800 (PST)

Solaris 2.6 and its kernel are not currently able to support PIM.
However, Solaris 8 will have kernel support and you should be able to
run the standalone daemons referenced off

	http://catarina.usc.edu/pim/

under Solaris 8 which is available via early access from

	http://www.sun.com/developers/tools/solaris/

Cheers,

dsc

On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Shishir Jain wrote:

> 
> Hello!
> 
> We are looking at implementing PIM-SM protocol on Solaris 2.6 sparc.
> 
> The question I have is:
> 
> Is Solaris 2.6 kernel completely capable to support PIM and has all the
> required interfaces? I was looking at pimd implementation publicly
> available and found few differences in netinet/ip_mroute.h and here are
> few differences like:
> 
> - VIFF_REGISTER flag for vif structure is not defined on Solaris 2.6
> - IGMPMSG_WHOLEPKT is not defined on Solaris 2.6
> 
> Can these things be accomplished other ways, or, some patches are
> available for PIM support somewhere for Solaris 2.6?
> 
> Thanks in advance for the help.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Shishir
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