From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 15 08:35:59 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA07711 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 08:35:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from birk04.studby.uio.no (birk04.studby.uio.no [129.240.214.13]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA07700 for ; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 08:35:54 -0800 (PST) Received: (from aagero@localhost) by birk04.studby.uio.no (8.7.3/Himkok) id RAA02999; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 17:35:39 +0100 (MET) Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 17:35:39 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <199602151635.RAA02999@birk04.studby.uio.no> From: "Åge Røbekk" To: wollman@lcs.mit.edu CC: questions@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <9602151607.AA11958@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> (wollman@lcs.mit.edu) Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a multicast router/tunnel MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk | > 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. Oh well. I have set up the tunnel correctly and the data is running back and forth and the multicast routing tables are present when I run netstat -g and everything looks fine. But the data is not sent to the locally attached network on which the router is hooked up. Therefore the role as a multicast tunnel reduces to null and void, unless there are some magic routing entries that will allow the data flow to also be shared to the other hosts on the very same network as the freebsd multicast router machine. -aage