Hi everyone,
I've been working on a port of Wilbert de Graaf's (wilbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
IGMPv3 implementation for FreeBSD to Linux 2.4.x.
A tarball containing the patch (against Linux 2.4.6), documentation, and some
test programs demonstrating use of the new multicast source filter (MSF) API
is available at ftp://ftpeng.cisco.com/igmpv3linux/igmpv3linux-v0003.tar.gz
This is alpha quality software, and there is still a good amount of work to be
done, but it's reached a stage where some people may find it useful. Also, I'm
anxious to receive feedback on both the high-level approach and on any specific
problems that people detect.
Known limitations are:
- ip_mc_destroy_dev() not yet implemented
- probable concurrency issues
- Only traditional struct ip_mreq accepted by MSF API functions; no
support for struct ip_mreqn (i.e. identification of join interface by
ifindex).
- ip_mc_inc_group() and ip_mc_dec_group() internal interface used by GRE
not yet implemented.
- Source filters not used for raw socket delivery, only for UDP delivery
- Coarse-grained locking
- Protocol-independent MSF API not implemented
The web page for the original FreeBSD implementation is in the middle of being
migrated to http://www.kloosterhof.com/~wilbert/igmpv3.html. For now, a Google-
cached copy can be viewed at
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:w5LFEFJjCugC:home.hetnet.nl/~wilbertdg/igmpv3.html+igmpv3&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
Thanks,
Vince Laviano
vlaviano@xxxxxxxxx
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