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  $Id: README,v 1.1.1.1 2017/06/12 07:58:55 misho Exp $

WARNING! WARNING! WARNING!
THIS RELEASE IS VERY ALPHA, SO PLEASE DO NOT REDISTRIBUTE AND
DO NOT TRY IT OUTSIDE OF YOUR TESTBED.

This is README for pimd, the PIM multicast daemon.
PIM-DM version: 2
Check http://www.antc.uoregon.edu/ for lastest version.

SUPPORTED PLATFORMS: FreeBSD-2.2.1, SunOS-4.1.3, Solaris-2.5.1 and 2.6,
SGI, BSDI 3.0/3.1

AVAILABLE PIM kernel patches: FreeBSD-2.2.1, FreeBSD-2.2.2, FreeBSD-2.2,5,
		SunOS-4.1.3, SGI, BSDI-3.0, BSDI-3.1


FAST START (read "fast explanation" :))

1. Apply the PIM kernel patches, recompile, reboot.
   These contain necessary bug fixes to the ipmroute kernel code as well 
   as stuff needed only for PIM-SM.

2. Copy pimdd.conf to /etc and edit as appropriate. Disable the interfaces
you don't need. Note that you need at least 2 physical interfaces enabled.

3. Edit Makefile by uncommenting the line(s) corresponding to your platform.

4. Recompile pimdd (you need to have the 'include' files patches applied)

5. Run pimdd as a root. It is highly recommended to run it in debug mode.
Because there are many debug messages, you can specify only a subset of
the messages to be printed out:

usage: pimdd [-c configfile] [-d [debug_level][,debug_level]]

Valid debug levels: dvmrp_prunes,dvmrp_mrt,dvmrp_neighbors,dvmrp_timers,igmp_proto,igmp_timers,igmp_members,trace,timeout,pkt,interfaces,kernel,cache,rsrr,pim_hello,pim_register,pim_join_prune,pim_graft,pim_bootstrap,pim_asserts,pim_cand_rp,pim_routes,pim_timers,pim_rpf

If you want to see all messages, use "pimd -d" only.

6. There are plenty of bugs, some of them known (check BUGS.TODO),
some of them unknown, so your bug reports are mroe than welcome.

Kurt Windisch
kurtw@antc.uoregon.edu

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

 * This pimd code was mostly written by Pavlin Ivanov Radoslavov 
   (pavlin@catarina.usc.edu) and Ahmed Helmy (ahelmy@catarina.usc.edu), 
   before being heavily modified by myself.

 * The PIM kernel modifications and pimd itself were originally written by 
   Ahmed Helmy (ahelmy@catarina.usc.edu) as a summer intern in SGI.

 * The "up to the March '97 I-D spec" + RSVP support pimd version was done
   during Pavlin's summer'97 intern in Sun Microsystems under Michael Speer's
   supervision.

 * BSDI 3.0/3.1 support + various improvements and bug reports
   by Hitoshi Asaeda (asaeda@yamato.ibm.co.jp).

 * Bug reports and SGI tests by Nidhi Bhaskar (nidhi@cho-oyu.engr.sgi.com).

 * Bug reports and SunOS tests by Isabelle Girard (girardi@rc.bel.alcatel.be)
   and Dirk Ooms (oomsd@rc.bel.alcatel.be)

 * NetBSD-1.3 compilation support (both for pimd and the kernel mods) and
   bug reports by Heiko W.Rupp <hwr@pilhuhn.de>

 * Thanks to the FreeBSD team and particularly to the
   freebsd-hackers mailing list participants for the help
   with the real-time debugging of the FreeBSD kernel.