On Sun, 2017-12-10 at 19:14 +0100, Martin Pieuchot wrote: > On 10/12/17(Sun) 17:59, Joachim Nilsson wrote: > > [...] > > Now, I've got a few worried questions recently about the removal[3] > > of PIM support in OpenBSD, so I thought I'd ask here. Why have you > > removed it? > [...] > Last year rzalamena@ rewrote the multicast code to reduce the number > of global data structures, add rdomain support and sync v6 with v4. > When he started working on that we considered that adapting > unmaintained and non-compiled PIM code was too much extra > work. That's why this code has been removed.
I see, well that's completely understandable! I've noticed this lack of people interested in learning/maintaining multicast in the Linux world as well, and I agree. There's no point trying to keep support if there's nobody there to help out doing the hard work testing and reviewing patches. > I'd welcome anyone interested in PIM to work on it. I'd be great to > have proper kernel support that meets OpenBSD standard and have it > enabled by default. If you're interested in such work, I can help > you getting started ;) Heh, well there's that Christmas vacation coming up soon. I might very well have a look at it then :-) In the meantime, thank you so much for taking the time to respond! Best regards /Joachim
