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Date:      Mon, 20 Aug 2001 08:18:52 -0500 (CDT)
From:      mark tinguely <tinguely@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, mg-fbsd@grant.org
Subject:   Re: mtrace
Message-ID:  <200108201318.f7KDIqu85843@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200108191614.RAA08287@splat.grant.org>

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>  I'm trying to get multicasting working on my freebsd 4.3 box.  I tried 
>  to start mrouted but got loads of "no route to host" messages:
[deleted part of message]
>  where A.B.C.D is my host's ip addr.
>
>  I do have MROUTING in the kernel.  Any ideas?

multicast packets are limited to the local network (do not pass through
a router). To get the packet to another network you can either tunnel
the packet using the DVMPR protocol via the mrouted command or use
the PIM protocol via the pimd command -- note pimd is not distributed
with FreeBSD nor is it in the ports, but you find it with a search engine
and compiles on FreeBSD. Choose the protocol used on your LAN or your
ISP's LAN.

The kernel option "MROUTING" provides the hooks for the mrouted or pimd
to forward packets to the other LAN. Multicast support for the local
interfaces are compiled into the FreeBSd network stack by default.

--mark tinguely

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