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Move multicast restrictions from change log to man page caveats.
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bluhm committed Jan 9, 2025
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1.12 2025-01-09
* Implement sending and receiving IPv4 and IPv6 UDP multicast
packets. Note that using -r remotessh together with multicast
usually does not work as interface address and name are different
on remote machine.
packets.

1.11 2024-08-11
* Command line option -C allows to specify a OpenBSD network
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.Op Fl B Ar bitrate
.Op Fl b Ar bufsize
.Op Fl d Ar delay
.Op Fl i Ar ifaddr
.Op Fl I Ar ifaddr
.Op Fl i Ar idle
.Op Fl L Ar loop
.Op Fl l Ar length
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.Nm
program was written by
.An Alexander Bluhm Aq Mt [email protected] .
.Sh CAVEATS
Using
.Fl r Ar remotessh
together with multicast groups usually does not work.
The interface address and name
are different on the remote machine, but
.Fl I Ar ifaddr
affects both local and remote.
.Sh BUGS
The number of ethernet frames and their size is calculated.
With vlan or jumbo it will be wrong.

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