Probably a simple question but...

Danial Thom danial_thom at yahoo.com
Fri Jun 16 15:58:45 UTC 2006


Are you running mrouted? 

--- Atom Powers <atom.powers at gmail.com> wrote:

> I haven't worked with multicast much, but from
> my understanding you
> may have to join the router to the multicast
> domain.
> 
> On 6/15/06, Mayo, Richard A RDECOM CERDEC STCD
> SRI
> <Richard.Mayo at us.army.mil> wrote:
> > I believe this is a simple fix, but I sure
> can't find it.
> >
> > I set up 2 FreeBSD boxes as dual-stack
> network routers and I'm using them to test an
> application capable of generating both TCP and
> UDP messaging.  The TCP part of this equation
> is working great -- my message fly around the
> network just like they should.
> >
> > However, my routers appear to be eating my
> multicast UDP packets.  The packets are
> addressed to 225.0.0.41 and static routes for
> that prefix are defined in both rc.conf files
> (I only use 1 multicast address, so I don't see
> a reason to use a multicast routing daemon). 
> Obviously, I don't believe the static route is
> defined correctly.
> >
> > Can somebody clue me in to the proper method
> for configuring a FreeBSD computer, functioning
> as a network router, to accept all packets
> addressed to 225.0.0.41 on either Ethernet
> interface and forward them out the other?? 
> (they're RL0 and RL1, lower case.)
> >
> > Do I need to define 2 static routes?
> > Do I need to switch something else on?
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks for any help,
> > Rich Mayo
> >
> >
> >
> > P.S.  It may be significant that when I
> installed the OS on the computer, there was
> only 1 NIC present.  I added the other one
> after I got the software running, so it occurs
> to me that there may be a switch relating to
> forwarding that's not "ON", but I have no idea
> where to look for that.
> >
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