Subject: Re: Is Solaris 2.6 kernel PIM capable?

From: Shishir Jain <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 13:32:32 +0530

Hello David,

We just got Solaris 2.8 Early Access for Sparc. At first look at the
header file ip_mroute.h, it seems no new changes have been done to
support PIM. 

Is there a separate patch for PIM for Solaris 2.8 or is it planned to be
released later? Please do let me know its current status of
availability.

Thanks & Regards

Shishir

David Comay wrote:
> 
> 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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