multicasts are not forwarded on wifi interface

Adrian Chadd adrian.chadd at gmail.com
Wed Aug 12 17:34:24 UTC 2015


HI,

Would you please try freebsd-head? I think this was fixed a while ago,
but I don't think it was ever backported to freebsd-8.

Thanks!


-a


On 12 August 2015 at 10:20, Hooshang F <ebastan10 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We have a freebsd 8.3 wifi-AP running as a VirtulaBox guest
> with 2 ethernet (em0 & em1) and one USB wifi interface (wlan0). Everything
> works except that multicast packets arriving on wlan0 interface are not
> forwarded on Ethernet interfaces. Also, multicast packets arriving on
> Ethernet interfaces are not forwarded on wlan0 interface (however,
> multicasts are forwarded between Ethernet interfaces). As a result,
> portable devices are not able to discover
> DLNA media servers using UPnP.
>
> The kernel is compiled with MROUTING option and mrouted
> is running with default configuration.
>
> Any points/hints is appreciated.
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