Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!mcsun!inria!chorus!sylvain From: sylvain@burden.chorus.fr (Sylvain Langlois) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: IP Multicasting in SunOS Message-ID: Date: 10 Jan 90 10:05:52 GMT References: <9001052140.AA01228@risci.TN.CORNELL.EDU> <43507@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> <819@wrs.wrs.com> Sender: sylvain@chorus.fr Organization: Chorus Systemes, Saint-Quentin-En-Yvelines, France Lines: 34 In-reply-to: hwajin@wrs.wrs.com's message of 8 Jan 90 20:56:52 GMT In article <819@wrs.wrs.com> hwajin@wrs.wrs.com (Hwa Jin Bae) writes: Hwa Jin> While newer ethernet boards designed around recent chip sets such Hwa Jin> as LANCE and National's NIC (DP8390) family do provide Hwa Jin> ability to program your multicast addresses this is not Hwa Jin> yet available every where. Hwa Jin> Even the boards built around such advanced chips do not provide Hwa Jin> direct access to the chip registers (e.g. some of cmc and Hwa Jin> excelan boards) thus making the multicast address Hwa Jin> programming less than straight forward at the driver level. I'm trying to bring up Multicast IP (V 1.2 of june 89) on a Sun 3/80 running sun OS 4.0.3 ... It seems that the Lance Ethernet driver has been changed a lot for the 3/80 (numerous references to this type of architecture in the sources!). As far as I understand, Mutlicast IP, as distributed by ftp has not been ported on such a box. I've tried to hack around between Steve's sources and Sun Kernel sources but I still cannot boot: it seems that me IP layer is totally dead (init process cannot launch ypbind for instance!). Has anyone already faced these problems? Is it planned that a next release of Multicast IP will be running on this particular configuration? Sylvain -- ---------------- Sylvain Langlois "Dogmatic attachement to the supposed merits (sylvain@chorus.fr) of a particular structure hinders the search (sylvain%chorus.fr@mcsun.EU.net) of an appropriate structure" (Robert Fripp)