🚀 go-pugleaf

Everywhere I look, I find all the usual mbone tools for Linux are
compiled in 96/97 against dynamic libraries such as libc.so.4 !? I can't
seem to recompile them from source, for various reasons. For example,
'mrouted' throws up errors related to missing header files and such.

So, my questions are :-

1) Where can I get some recent Linux v2 binaries/compilable source for
things like 'mrouted', 'sdr' and 'vic/vat'? Preferably glibc compatible.

2) Assuming I can get mrouted to work, how can I join multicast groups
from my fixed-address ISDN dial-up? Do I need to open/close a tunnel
each time I bring the line up?

If the answer to 1) is 'you can't', is there anyone out there interested
in discussing what would be required to get these tools up-to-date.  If
it's discussed in simple enough terms, with enough references, I should
be able to pick up enough to do something. I'd be willing to provide
services (mail list/web site/CVS etc) for such a project, if anyone else
is interested.

My motivation for this is so that other low-budget users like me,
without a corporate budget and/or a Solaris machine handy can take
advantage of MBone broadcasts. I run Linux via ISDN from my home office,
and have been interested in getting some kind of Mbone feed for ages. My
ISP (Nildram) is v cool IMO, but they don't have a feed. They used to,
but if I recall they found that none of their customers used it so they
dropped it.

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Ross, finally learning about multicast.