The Multicast Routing Daemon v6 (MRD6) is an
IPv6 multicast routing daemon developed by Hugo Santos. Its main features include:
* Extensible modular design
*
MLDv1 and
MLDv2 support
*
PIM-
SM support (ASM and
SSM)
* Partial
MBGP
Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP (MBGP or MP-BGP), sometimes referred to as Multiprotocol BGP or Multicast BGP and defined in IETF RFC 4760, is an extension to Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) that allows different types of addresses (known as address ...
support
* Supports both native and virtual (tunnel) interfaces (tested IPv6-IPv4, IPv6-IPv6 and TUN/TAP tunnels)
* Abstract Multicast Forwarding Interface (MFA) with user-space forwarding
* CLI support (remote configuration and management) via telnet or local access
The project is unsupported since 2013. The author states as a reason that native multicast forwarding support is available in Linux since 2005 and pim6sd could be used to manage it.
mrd6 README file
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See also
* IP Multicast
References
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External links
Source code on GithubProject Homepage (abandoned)
Routing