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- 02/20/95: Version 3.0b3
-
- Sorry for the delay since the last time I released a Linux reflector... I
- been busy. Anyway 3.0b3 here required the same fixes as 2.50b1. There seem
- to be a lot of compiler warnings anymore, I doubt they are important however
- probably mostly prototype warnings again. We still ignore the recvfrom
- error in socket.c -- I don't know if this is still necessary however.
-
- Newer linux kernels (at least 1.1.72 and above. What ever happened to
- 1.2.x??) support multicasting, and the reflector will compile w/o bombing
- with the -DMBONE option specified. I can't say that it works however, since
- we don't have a MBONE reflector handy. -- Someone is welcome to donate one
- however... =) I think one can "borrow" someone elses reflector to try it out
- however. I always welcome feedback on how well the reflector works, etc...
-
- NOTE: The binary is compiled with the options specified in the Makefile,
- therefore with MBONE support and with DONTLOGPKTS turned on. If you don't
- want MBONE or packet logging edit the makefile and recompile, it should go
- without a hitch.
-
- EXTRA: nv doesn't seem to want to connect to the reflector... It seems to
- stay up at least (which is more than I've heard it'll do). I don't really
- have a working nv client to use, and the reflector isn't telling me much,
- soo... I'll just have to leave it at that for now.
-
- - Steve Baker
- root@mama.indstate.edu
-
- 11/29/94: Version 2.50b1
-
- Again, same as 2.40b4, I added an option to the makefile to turn off the
- logging of the packet information in the log file, which makes for big logs
- if you have a camera that reflects off the reflector 24 hours a day. This
- logging is turned off by default in the Makefile, to turn on the logging
- again comment out the -DDONTLOGPKTS.
-
- Apparently MBONE is sorta supported in the Linux kernel, you will need to
- get some headers to make this thing compile tho, I'll work on getting those
- and include them in later releases of this if I can get a handle on the
- MBONE stuff. Until ISU gets a MBONE router I'm in the dark however. The
- multicasting stuff is supposed to be worked on in the 1.3.x kernels.
-
- The continue after recvfrom() error hack in socket.c is still in there.
-
- - Steve Baker
-
- 11/21/94: Version 2.40b4
-
- Basically same as with 2.40b3, however we had some problems with the
- reflector dropping dead on some recvfrom error in socket.c line 280, so we
- made it ignore the error (bad) and the reflector became rock solid (good).
- We reflected the Prince Charles fiasco with ~ 38 users the whole time and
- the reflector didn't so much as hiccup after the fix.
-
- My knowledge of MBONE is virtually nil, since we don't have it at ISU, and
- I've not bothered to keep up on it, so if you want this thing to do MBONE,
- you're on your own. You're welcome to mail me how you got it to work and
- I'll put instructions in this distrib, whenever I find the time to update it.
-
- - Steve Baker
-
-
- 10/19/94: Version 2.40b3
-
- Basically made some small changes to the Makefile, and put some #ifndef's
- to not use #include <sys/socketvar.h> which doesn't exist under Linux. If
- you have MBONE you should uncomment out the -DMULTI in the Makefile and
- re-compile, you'll get some prototype errors but nothing major. As far as I
- know Linux does do MBONE, so use it if your routers does it.
-
- After this I'll try and get the guys who take care of the real thing to
- put the changes needed to make it compile cleanly under Linux.
-
- Also don't use -DDEBUG, unless that is you want to fill your filesystem up
- in no time flat...
-
- - Steve Baker
-
- 08/14/94: Version 2.30b1
-
- Thanks go to Mitch Nibblelink (mnibbeli@calvin.edu) for patching some byte
- order problems with the MOTD field length and more string copies into the
- text segment (causing segmentation faults). This stuff really should be
- officially patched since this isn't good no matter what OS it's running on!
-
- Mitch promises that it'll work just spiffy now, so blame him if it breaks!
-
- Thanks Mitch!
-
-
- 07/26/94: Version 2.30b1
-
- This was compiled under the slackware 1.2 distribution, it'll probably
- compile under just about anything. The main problem with porting it is
- making it not use the sys/socketvar.h header that all the source files want.
- That's about it really. There are plenty of prototype warnings, but you can
- ignore them.
-
- I also fixed a problem in main where some bozo was doing two strcpy's in
- the wrong direction, causing segmentation faults... I find it surprising
- that anyone could get it to work at all, but I guess it'll only do it under
- certain circumstances.
-
- I don't know if this version will work right or not, but previous versions
- worked fine on our Linux box. Included are the linux binaries.
-
- - Steve Baker
- root@mama.indstate.edu
-