mcast-tools is a package containing IPv6-multicast routing daemons and tools,
comprising the following programs.
- mcastread
an IPv6 multicast receiver
- mcastsend
an IPv6 multicast sender
- mfc
an IPv6 multicast routing daemon, which only supports static
multicast routing.
- pim6sd
an IPv6 multicast routing daemon, which supports PIM-SM
(Protocol Independent Multicast Sparse-Mode Version 2), and
PIM-SSM (Source-Specific Multicast using PIM-SM)
- pim6dd
an IPv6 multicast routing daemon, which supports PIM-DM
(Protocol Independent Multicast Dense-Mode Version 2)
- pmsft
a test program for Multicast Source Filter (MSF) using APIs
specified in Socket Interface Extention for MSF (RFC3678).
(on a non-IGMPv3/MLDv2-aware kernel, only join/leave
operation is supported)
Binary packages can be installed with the high-level tool pkgin (which can be installed with pkg_add) or pkg_add(1) (installed by default). The NetBSD packages collection is also designed to permit easy installation from source.
The pkg_admin audit command locates any installed package which has been mentioned in security advisories as having vulnerabilities.
Please note the vulnerabilities database might not be fully accurate, and not every bug is exploitable with every configuration.
Problem reports, updates or suggestions for this package should be reported with send-pr.