Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 20:20:58 +0000 From: Baldur Gislason <baldur@foo.is> To: Xander <fbsd@synoptic.org> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Multicast Message-ID: <20060822202058.GC804@gremlin.foo.is> In-Reply-To: <20060822191607.GA27130@gort.synoptic.org> References: <20060821165401.GB804@gremlin.foo.is> <20060822191607.GA27130@gort.synoptic.org>
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No, and I tried booting a GENERIC kernel also to rule out ipfw. Baldur On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 12:16:07PM -0700, Xander wrote: > On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 04:54:01PM +0000, Baldur Gislason wrote: > > > I'm having some problems receiving multicast traffic on my FreeBSD > > 6.1-STABLE workstation with VLC. I get the streams but I seem to get > > plenty of packetloss on the freebsd box but on other boxes on the same > > network I don't see such problems. I haven't noticed any packetloss > > with unicast. Any thoughts? I've tried running a GENERIC kernel and > > that makes no difference, I've also tried two different network cards. > > (em and fxp) > > I'm afraid that I only have time for a short reply at the moment, > but are you using pf? I believe I may have run into an issue where > pf doesn't handle tunneled multicast routing (mrouted tunnel) very > well. The issue appears to have something to do with pf not > understanding on what interface the unencapsulated multicast packet > arrived on (since it's re-injected into the stack by mrouted). > (This was seen on 6.1-RELEASE-p3 and 6.1-STABLE as of a week ago) > > At any rate, if you are using pf you might try disabling it and seeing > if that helps your problem. > > cheers > -x > >
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