From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 30 00:21:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA03811 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 30 May 1997 00:21:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns.wsa.com.au ([137.157.244.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA03659 for ; Fri, 30 May 1997 00:19:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [203.3.122.67] by ns.wsa.com.au with ESMTP (Eudora Internet Mail Server 1.1.2); Fri, 30 May 1997 17:16:53 +1000 X-Sender: alastair@mail.cia.com.au Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: <3.0.1.32.19970530154457.007989a0@mail.apic.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 17:17:47 +1000 To: Nadav Eiron From: Alastair Rankine Subject: Re: Routing question Cc: Mitch James , questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >On Fri, 30 May 1997, Adrian Carter wrote: > >> MULTICASTING!! =) >> >> 224.0.0.1 Is all systems MultiCast >> 224.0.0.2 is All-Routers-Multicast >> >> The problem is somene is attempting to use/access a Multi-Cast service, but >> you havent configure Mutli-Cast routing in your kernel/sysconfig . > >Yeah. Your routed is trying to talk to other routers. The reason you >didn't see that in 2.1.5 is (as far as I recall) 2.1.5 had, by default, a >static route for the 224.0.0 network (multicasts). I think that adding >that to your list of static routes will also do the trick. Yep, it does. According to man routed, it uses the Internet Router Discovery Protocol to find other routers to talk to. This is done using ICMP broadcast as soon as routed starts up. Neither of my FreeBSD boxes need to run routed apart from routing between the ethernet and PPP link, but there doesn't seem to be a global "use static routes only" switch to routed (at least from my skimming of the man page). Thanks to all for the info. -- [ Alastair Rankine ] [ pgp D6E9 DC10 7B7A 9269 0F14 882D E9D9 D4D5 ] [ home mailto:alastair@cia.com.au http://www.cia.com.au/alastair ] [ work mailto:alastair@progmatics.com.au http://www.progmatics.com.au ]