From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 15 00:15:34 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA03217 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 15 May 1996 00:15:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.barrnet.net (mail.barrnet.net [131.119.246.7]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA03202 for ; Wed, 15 May 1996 00:15:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from silver.sms.fi (silver.sms.fi [194.111.122.1]) by mail.barrnet.net (8.7.5/MAIL-RELAY-LEN) with ESMTP id AAA24006 for ; Wed, 15 May 1996 00:15:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from pete@localhost) by silver.sms.fi (8.7.5/8.6.9) id KAA03932; Wed, 15 May 1996 10:12:24 +0300 (EET DST) Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 10:12:24 +0300 (EET DST) Message-Id: <199605150712.KAA03932@silver.sms.fi> From: Petri Helenius To: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Multicast Router with 2.1.0R ? In-Reply-To: <199605150354.AAA22519@gaia.coppe.ufrj.br> References: <199605150354.AAA22519@gaia.coppe.ufrj.br> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Joao Carlos Mendes Luis writes: > Hello, > > I' trying to implement a multicast router with FreeBSD 2.1.0. I got the > 3.8 version of mrouted, compiled and all seemed ok. Multicast tunnels > seens to work well. But I have a question: I can only see one route > to the 224.0.0.0 network, but I have 2 network cards. I cannot add a > second route to the 224 network in the second card. Is this a limitation > in the kernel ? Should I make any change to the phyint parameters in > the mrouted.conf to make it work in both interfaces ? > You need to choose one interface to the host functionality of multicast but mrouted will automatically use all interfaces in the machine. Actually if you have only one interface (totalling physical and logical) you cannot run mrouted, which does not defeat your host from using multicast services (obviously). Pete