multicast/mrouted question

My company develops a satellite-network product, and part of our
distribution is an old multicast router called mrouted. However, I note
that mrouted hasn't been updated since 1999. We hadn't had any requests
for multicast in years, and I've mostly forgotten about it. Now, however,
we have a customer who wants multicast support. I'm wondering, though, if
there isn't something more common and actually supported than that old
package??

We're currently working with kernel 2.2, but will be upgrading our drivers
and other software to kernel 2.6 soon.

- for kernel 2.2, is there anything newer and hopefully better supported
than mrouted??

- for kernel 2.6, is there anything newer and hopefully better supported
than mrouted??

Thank you for any help you can provide to me...






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Dan Miller <(E-Mail Removed)> écrivait
news:Xns973ABD6C54E18dananacominccom@38.119.71.68:

> My company develops a satellite-network product, and part of our
> distribution is an old multicast router called mrouted. However, I
> note that mrouted hasn't been updated since 1999. We hadn't had any
> requests for multicast in years, and I've mostly forgotten about it.
> Now, however, we have a customer who wants multicast support. I'm
> wondering, though, if there isn't something more common and actually
> supported than that old package??
>
> We're currently working with kernel 2.2, but will be upgrading our
> drivers and other software to kernel 2.6 soon.
>
> - for kernel 2.2, is there anything newer and hopefully better
> supported than mrouted??
>
> - for kernel 2.6, is there anything newer and hopefully better
> supported than mrouted??

Have a look at quagga, a routing daemon derived from the zebra project.

And don't forget to enable multicast features int the kernel.

Regards

Antoine EMERIT <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
news:XnF973B6CF7A4A17antoineemerit@212.27.42.137:

> Dan Miller <(E-Mail Removed)> écrivait
> news:Xns973ABD6C54E18dananacominccom@38.119.71.68:
>
>> My company develops a satellite-network product, and part of our
>> distribution is an old multicast router called mrouted. However, I
>> note that mrouted hasn't been updated since 1999. We hadn't had any
>> requests for multicast in years, and I've mostly forgotten about it.
>> Now, however, we have a customer who wants multicast support. I'm
>> wondering, though, if there isn't something more common and actually
>> supported than that old package??
>>
>> We're currently working with kernel 2.2, but will be upgrading our
>> drivers and other software to kernel 2.6 soon.
>>
>> - for kernel 2.2, is there anything newer and hopefully better
>> supported than mrouted??
>>
>> - for kernel 2.6, is there anything newer and hopefully better
>> supported than mrouted??
>
> Have a look at quagga, a routing daemon derived from the zebra project.
>
> And don't forget to enable multicast features int the kernel.
>
> Regards
>
Is Quagga actually a multicast router?? I don't see any support for DVMRP,
and it has a comment in the docs:

"Currently, Quagga supports common unicast routing protocols. Multicast
routing protocols such as BGMP, PIM-SM, PIM-DM may be supported in Quagga
2.0. "

I need a replacement for the multicast router 'mrouted' ...

Dan


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