From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 15 08:07:44 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA06049 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 08:07:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA06044 for ; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 08:07:35 -0800 (PST) Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; (5.65/1.1.8.2/19Aug95-0530PM) id AA11958; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 11:07:21 -0500 Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 11:07:21 -0500 From: "Garrett A. Wollman" Message-Id: <9602151607.AA11958@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: "Ege Rxbekk" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD as a multicast router/tunnel In-Reply-To: <199602151038.LAA01088@birk04.studby.uio.no> References: <199602151038.LAA01088@birk04.studby.uio.no> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk < said: > I'm trying to use FreeBSD as a multicast tunnel, but the data it > receives does not get sent to the local ethernet. However, programs > run locally on the tunnel works fine. Are there any magic routes I > have to set up? Except the 224.0.0.0 which is added in sysconfig. You have to set up /etc/mrouted.conf and run mrouted. In more recent versions, there is an option in /etc/sysconfig to automatically start mrouted. I don't know how well the tunneling code gets exercised; we're on a research testbed network which has multicast capability throughout. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant