From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 15 22:32:40 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0408116A468 for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 22:32:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from zec@icir.org) Received: from xaqua.tel.fer.hr (xaqua.tel.fer.hr [161.53.19.25]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B71D013C44B for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 22:32:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from zec@icir.org) Received: by xaqua.tel.fer.hr (Postfix, from userid 20006) id 8DD809B64E; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 00:15:39 +0200 (CEST) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.7 (2006-10-05) on xaqua.tel.fer.hr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.3 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.1.7 Received: from [192.168.200.100] (zec2.tel.fer.hr [161.53.19.79]) by xaqua.tel.fer.hr (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC4329B64A; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 00:15:38 +0200 (CEST) From: Marko Zec To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 00:15:35 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 References: <1494.1181943860@critter.freebsd.dk> <46730D54.4060207@yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <46730D54.4060207@yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200706160015.35344.zec@icir.org> X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 23:17:48 +0000 Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp Subject: Re: multicast not happy ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 22:32:40 -0000 On Saturday 16 June 2007 00:06:12 John Merryweather Cooper wrote: > Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > In message <46730545.8050005@yahoo.com>, John Merryweather Cooper writes: > >>> Any ideas ? > >> > >> # /sbin/route add -static -net 224.0.0.0 -netmask 240.0.0.0 -iface > >> sis[1|2] > >> > >> I had to do this so my OpenSlp would work. > > > > I just got to about the same conclusion, only I used: > > > > route add -net 224.0.0.0/4 127.0.0.1 > > > > I'd say this is a bug... > > I got the idea from a web page with the instructions for setting up > OpenSlp on Linux. I note that mDNS seems to need this too. To me, > it makes sense because you need an interface to actually receive/send > multicast on--and that's what 224.0.0.0/4 is for. An explicit route to send multicast packets wasn't needed in 4.x days - having an interface join the target mcast group was enough. Marko