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    1: Second Pre-release December 31, 1998 (Happy New Year)
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    3: * Fixed a variety of bugs and updated the implementation to comply
    4:   with some sublte points and revisions of the PIM-DM specification.
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    6: * Also synch'ed with the latest pimd from Pavlin and added patches
    7:   for Linux, which were contributed by Jonathan Day <j.c.day@larc.nasa.gov>.
    8:   Thanks Jonathan.
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   11: First Pre-release June 5, 1997
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   13: * Pimd-dense requires kernel patches to the current ip_mroute kernel 
   14:   in order to operate correctly.  This is due to bugs in the ipmroute
   15:   kernel code currently being distributed (at least for FreeBSD).
   16:   I've tested pimdd with both Rusty's GateD patches (to be depricated)
   17:   and Pavlin's combined patches, which are available at:
   18:     ftp://catarina.usc.edu/pub/pim/pimd/experimental/one-pimd-gated-kernel
   19:   It should also work with any of the other recent patch kits that Pavlin
   20:   has produced for use with Sparse-mode pimd.
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   22: * Since pimd cannot reliably get preference and metric info from the kernel
   23:   a configuration option is provided to specify a preference with which to
   24:   advertise sources when sending PIM-Assert messages.  The phyint command
   25:   in pimd.conf allows you to specify a default perference for each
   26:   interface.  If no preference is specified, prefs will default to 101, 
   27:   which is high enough that default preferences advertised by either
   28:   Cisco or Gated routers (both having better information on unicast routes)
   29:   will will over pimd preferences.  Directly connected sources will always
   30:   be asserted with a preference of 0.
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   32: * Because unicast routes are obtained from the kernel, only the prefered
   33:   route is available.  Pimd cannot determine the existence of 
   34:   equal-cost-multipaths, and thus does not implement the addressing of
   35:   joins and prunes to 0.0.0.0.
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   37: * RSRR support is currently rough and completely untested.
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