From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 15 09:15:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA09729 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 09:15:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from maelstrom.cc.mcgill.ca (maelstrom.CC.McGill.CA [132.206.35.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA09724 for ; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 09:15:46 -0800 (PST) Received: (from yves@localhost) by maelstrom.cc.mcgill.ca (8.7.1/8.6.6) id MAA20217; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 12:08:54 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199602151708.MAA20217@maelstrom.cc.mcgill.ca> Content-Type: text/plain MIME-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) Received: by NeXT.Mailer (1.118.2) From: Yves Lepage Date: Thu, 15 Feb 96 12:08:53 -0500 To: "_ge R_bekk" Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a multicast router/tunnel cc: wollman@lcs.mit.edu, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: yves@CC.McGill.CA References: <199602151635.RAA02999@birk04.studby.uio.no> Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Hello, have you put a "phyint" entry in your mrouted.conf file? You will need one of these to be able to send mcast traffic to that interface. I hope this helps. Regards, Yves Lepage Begin forwarded message: Received: from sirocco.CC.McGill.CA (sirocco.CC.McGill.CA [132.206.27.12]) by maelstrom.cc.mcgill.ca (8.7.1/8.6.6) with SMTP id MAA20205 for ; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 12:02:15 -0500 (EST) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [192.216.222.4]) by sirocco.CC.McGill.CA (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA28841 for ; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 12:09:08 -0500 X-SMTP-Posting-Origin: freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [192.216.222.4]) Received: from localhost (daemon@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA07739 Thu, 15 Feb 1996 08:36:02 -0800 (PST) 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) From: "Age Robekk" 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 Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG | > 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