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Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 11:31:03 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jamie Bowden <jamie@inna.net>
To: Nags Rajaraman <nrajara@siue.edu>
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Subject: Re: mrouted question (fwd)
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Make sure you have multicast routing in your kernel.  If you know you 
have that, start mrouted with the -d flag, and see what the uotput on 
that is.  It should tell you why it's not starting.  Go through syslog 
also, you might find something in there.

On Wed, 16 Apr 1997, Nags Rajaraman wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> I couldn't get mrouted to start up on my FreeBSD machine.  I tried looking at
> the man page, but with no success. I checked the mrouted.pid file, but it is not
> getting created.  When I give mrouted in the background, it immediately gives
> the message "Done" and exits.
> 
> I've setup my /etc/mrouted.conf file as follows:
> 
> tunnel 146.163.133.107 146.163.130.60 metric 1 threshold 1
> tunnel 146.163.133.107 146.163.5.10 metric 1 threshold 1
> 
> Could anybody provide any inputs on this?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Nags
> 
> 

Jamie Bowden

Network Administrator, TBI Ltd.