From owner-freebsd-multimedia Mon Oct 28 16:21:30 1996 Return-Path: owner-multimedia Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA19936 for multimedia-outgoing; Mon, 28 Oct 1996 16:21:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from whistle.com (s205m131.whistle.com [207.76.205.131]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA19930 for ; Mon, 28 Oct 1996 16:21:28 -0800 (PST) Received: (from smap@localhost) by whistle.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id QAA20948; Mon, 28 Oct 1996 16:20:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from bubba.whistle.com(207.76.205.7) by whistle.com via smap (V1.3) id sma020943; Mon Oct 28 16:20:56 1996 Received: (from archie@localhost) by bubba.whistle.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id QAA18326; Mon, 28 Oct 1996 16:20:56 -0800 (PST) From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <199610290020.QAA18326@bubba.whistle.com> Subject: Re: multi-cast + proxy arp ? In-Reply-To: <96Oct28.131636pst.177480@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> from Bill Fenner at "Oct 28, 96 01:16:29 pm" To: fenner@parc.xerox.com (Bill Fenner) Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 16:20:55 -0800 (PST) Cc: hasty@rah.star-gate.com, freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL25 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > In message <199610281803.KAA17336@bubba.whistle.com>you write: > >The problem is that the IP address of the client is proxy-arp'ed, and > >mrouted doesn't consider the tunnel valid > > That's true. mrouted does not currently support this kind of configuration; > it requires subnets to be contiguous. If you give the client<>server PPP link > its own subnet it will work. I was afraid you'd say that :-) What are the chances mrouted could be so enlightened? A simple routing table check would suffice to confirm or deny whether the defined tunnel makes sense. -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com