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authorEsben Norby <norby@cvs.openbsd.org>2005-10-07 16:29:11 +0000
committerEsben Norby <norby@cvs.openbsd.org>2005-10-07 16:29:11 +0000
commite74cb26ea0c5a3dda257d3045fb573e01929e16f (patch)
treef858c496013b8df76e32c4793b40331a445ce9b0 /share/man/man4/pim.4
parentd39ca6ebd673875eb5f3301d7344c443447a9873 (diff)
Document the recent changes to the multicast routing in the kernel.
from jmc@ ok jmc@
Diffstat (limited to 'share/man/man4/pim.4')
-rw-r--r--share/man/man4/pim.414
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man4/pim.4 b/share/man/man4/pim.4
index 8efe111dd95..4e02be9d88c 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/pim.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/pim.4
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
.\" DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD: src/share/man/man4/pim.4,v 1.2 2004/07/09 09:22:36 ru Exp $
-.\" $OpenBSD: pim.4,v 1.4 2005/10/04 08:45:23 jmc Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: pim.4,v 1.5 2005/10/07 16:29:10 norby Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: pim.4,v 1.2 2004/09/12 13:06:14 wiz Exp $
.\"
.Dd September 4, 2003
@@ -74,11 +74,14 @@ to routers with no group membership information.
Both PIM-SM and PIM-DM are fairly complex protocols,
though PIM-SM is much more complex.
To enable PIM-SM or PIM-DM multicast routing in a router,
-the user must enable multicast routing and PIM processing in the kernel
+the user must enable multicast forwarding via the
+.Va net.inet.ip.mforwarding
+.Xr sysctl 8
+and PIM processing in the kernel
(see
.Sx SYNOPSIS
-about the kernel configuration options),
-and must run a PIM-SM or PIM-DM capable user-level process.
+for the correct kernel configuration option).
+The user must also run a PIM-SM or PIM-DM capable user-level process.
From a developer's point of view,
the programming guide described in the
.Sx "Programming Guide"
@@ -171,7 +174,8 @@ and
.Xr inet 4 ,
.Xr intro 4 ,
.Xr ip 4 ,
-.Xr multicast 4
+.Xr multicast 4 ,
+.Xr sysctl 8
.\"
.Sh STANDARDS
The PIM-SM protocol is specified in RFC 2362 (to be replaced by