[Removal of mrouted in FreeBSD-7.0]

[Bruce M. Simpson]

Archimedes S. Gaviola wrote:
> Hi! I have just read from the FreeBSD-7.0 release notes 
> http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.0R/relnotes.html that the mrouted 
> multicast routing protocol (DVMRP implementation) has been removed 
> from the base system. I want to know what multicast routing protocol 
> will served as replacement to this? The KAME snap kit have PIM-SM and 
> PIM-DM implementations but are specific only to IPv6. 

DVMRP is something of a legacy protocol now, most deployments use PIM-SM.

mrouted is still available in ports as other folk have pointed out

If you want a freely available router with full multicast capability, 
please give XORP a try.