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Subject: Re: multicast config confusion: can't get mrouted to work
To: rminnich@Sarnoff.COM (Ron G. Minnich)
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 15:59:31 +0500 (GMT+0500)
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960209115224.20566A-100000@terra> from "Ron G. Minnich" at Feb 9, 96 11:55:55 am
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> 
> i'm lost. I can't get mrouted on freebsd to do anything except quit. 
> Release is freebsd 2.1R, options MROUTE is on in the kernel. 
> 
> Here's a sample ifconfig -a
> lp0: flags=8810<POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> ep0: flags=863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,SIMPLEX> mtu 1500
>         inet 130.33.10.216 netmask 0xfffff800 broadcast 130.33.15.255
> lo0: flags=8009<UP,LOOPBACK,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
>         inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 
> sl0: flags=c010<POINTOPOINT,LINK2,MULTICAST> mtu 552
> tun0: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> 
> OK, i have two at least multicast capable interfaces. BUT, my ep0 is not 
> multicast capable. Is this because it can broadcast? there's no ifconfig 
> option to set multicast ...

You need to take the 3c509 driver from -current.

-SB