On Sun, 5 Feb 2006, Esben Norby wrote:
Yes, tiny baby steps has been taking in order to startup a OpenPIMD project,
but don't hold your breath...
;-P (I've never been one for doing as I am told)
Step one would probably be a PIM-DM, later on it can be expanded to support
PIM-SM.
DM would be progress and lead to SM. A flood and prune method I think
would be easier to implement initially than everything in SM so I am all
for it and currently reading the RFC's over again.
If any one are interested in this sort of thing please chip in.
I can't donate any code worth forken looking at but I can test in a live
environment and inter-operate with that dirty Crisco vendor. I can read
code but I am still learning =( (aka lots of books)
I'm going to start playing with DVMRP now that I see I can use mrouted
with our current PIM routers and hopefull get a tunnel up to transport the
multicast traffic to a OpenBSD gateway. This doesn't create a PIM router
but it does give me more features to learn/play with on OpenBSD which is
always a goal of mine.
I use mrouted myself on OpenBSD routers, and I really really want to replace
them.
I only read the protocol and never tried to set it up on a Crisco but now
that the network is up I see no reason not to as I am not that interested
in trying out XORP and can patiently hold my breath till I start to catch
wind of some commits on the CVS posts.
If you want to play, mrouted is good enough - I mainly use it for multicast
video streaming, and IPerf multicast test streams.
/Esben
Thanks for the reply Esben that is exactly what I was looking for.
