From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 21 May 2001 17:39:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 21 May 2001 17:39:09 -0400 Received: from mail.digitalme.com ([193.97.97.75]:24199 "EHLO digitalme.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 21 May 2001 17:38:56 -0400 Message-ID: <3B095D75.3050504@digitalme.com> Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 14:24:53 -0400 From: "Trever L. Adams" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.4.5-pre4 i686; en-US; rv:0.9+) Gecko/20010521 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linux Kernel Subject: [OT]: Multicasting Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I know this is off topic. I am not sure where else to go. All of my google searches lead me to very dead and very old information on multicasting. I am sure most of it is not useful, though some of the basics are. If people have a problem answering on list, please answer off. My questions: What protocols and session management (besides IGMP) does the kernel support (say, does it support source specific multicasting?)? Are the old how tos on multicast programming still the only things I need to worry about? If there are only X groups (in the few thousand if IRC), does the protocl allow only forwarding Y port on X group to the end person, or do they get the entire group? Anyone know of good books for Linux/Unix multicast programming? Trever Adams P.S. I am sure I have left out 1 million and 1 valuable questions that I need/want answers to, please feel free to add in what you think might be good for me to know. P.P.S. Sorry if this got here twice, I didn't see a copy returned to me last week through the list.