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Date:      Mon, 29 Apr 2024 16:36:20 +0200
From:      Dirk-Willem van Gulik <dirkx@webweaving.org>
To:        "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: Multicast & Tunnel devices
Message-ID:  <2C4BC70A-750C-4E0F-B400-351CBBD6374B@webweaving.org>
In-Reply-To: <202404290109.43T19HKw071603@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
References:  <202404290109.43T19HKw071603@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>

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> On 29 Apr 2024, at 03:09, Rodney W. Grimes <freebsd-rwg@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> wrote:
> 
>> Would anyone know if there is something special with tunnel devices and multicast ? 
>> 
>> I?ve got some code that happily processes multicast packets on a normal interface; but appears not to do this on a tunnel interface. Tun0 shows multicast enabled:
>> 	
>> 	tun0: flags=8043<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
>> 
>> Tcpdump on that interface gives the expected thing (here with mDNS):
>> 
>> 	tcpdump -n -i tun0 port 5353
>> 	listening on tun0, link-type NULL (BSD loopback), capture size 262144 bytes
>> 	19:26:03.976259 IP 10.31.0.6.5353 > 224.0.0.251.5353: 0 PTR (QM)? _raop._tcp.local. (34)
>> 
>> And code, with a simple IP_ADD_MEMBERSHIP  of the MC group on the IP of the local interface below works on a normal interface (e.g. igb0/10.0.0.1/24). 
>> 
>> 	./listener 10.0.0.1 224.0.0.251 5353
> 
> Is 10.0.0.1 the IP address of tun0, or is it the address of some other interface?
> I suspect that the IP address of the tun0 interface is 10.31.0.6 from your tcpdump above.

That is correct 10.0.0.1/8. 10.31.0.6 is another machine at the other end of the tunnel broadcasting.

> IIRC you have to join multicast group on all interfaces you expect to receive mustcast packets on.
> 
>> 	Received packet, len=128
>> 	etc
>> 
>> But yields no output if ran against above tun0 interface (while tcpdump on same is fine). Does that ring a bell with anyone ?
>> 
>> Dw
>> 
>> 
>> int main(int argc, char *argv[])
>> {
>>    struct sockaddr_in addr;
>>    struct ip_mreq mreq;
>> 
>> 	// skip error trapping command line arguments
>> 
>>    char* ip = argv[1]; 
>>    char* group = argv[2]; 
>>    int port = atoi(argv[3]); // 0 if error, which is an invalid port
>> 
>>    memset(&addr, 0, sizeof(addr));
>>    addr.sin_family = AF_INET;
>>    addr.sin_addr.s_addr = htonl(INADDR_ANY);
>>    addr.sin_port = htons(port);
>> 
>>    mreq.imr_interface.s_addr = inet_addr(ip); 
>>    mreq.imr_multiaddr.s_addr = inet_addr(group);
>> 
>> 	// skip error trapping on inet_addr
>> 
>>    int fd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, 0);
>> 	// skip error trapping socket
>> 
>>    if (bind(fd, (struct sockaddr*) &addr, sizeof(addr)) < 0) {
>> 	// skip error trapping
>> 
>>    if (setsockopt(fd, IPPROTO_IP, IP_ADD_MEMBERSHIP, (char*) &mreq, sizeof(mreq)) < 0 ){
>> 	// skip error trapping argumetns
>> 
>>    while (1) {
>> 	..
>>        int nbytes = recvfrom(fd,msgbuf,MSGBUFSIZE,0,(struct sockaddr *) &addr,&addrlen);
>>        if (nbytes < 0) {
>>            perror("recvfrom");
>>            return 1;
>>        }
>> 	printf(?Received packet, len=%d\n", nbytes);
>>     }
>> 


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<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 29 Apr 2024, at 03:09, Rodney W. Grimes &lt;freebsd-rwg@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net&gt; wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><meta charset="UTF-8"><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Would anyone know if there is something special with tunnel devices and multicast ?<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><br><br>I?ve got some code that happily processes multicast packets on a normal interface; but appears not to do this on a tunnel interface. Tun0 shows multicast enabled:<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;">	</span><br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;">	</span>tun0: flags=8043&lt;UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST&gt; metric 0 mtu 1500<br><br>Tcpdump on that interface gives the expected thing (here with mDNS):<br><br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;">	</span>tcpdump -n -i tun0 port 5353<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;">	</span>listening on tun0, link-type NULL (BSD loopback), capture size 262144 bytes<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;">	</span>19:26:03.976259 IP 10.31.0.6.5353 &gt; 224.0.0.251.5353: 0 PTR (QM)? _raop._tcp.local. (34)<br><br>And code, with a simple IP_ADD_MEMBERSHIP &nbsp;of the MC group on the IP of the local interface below works on a normal interface (e.g. igb0/10.0.0.1/24).<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><br><br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;">	</span>./listener 10.0.0.1 224.0.0.251 5353<br></blockquote><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;">Is 10.0.0.1 the IP address of tun0, or is it the address of some other interface?</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"></div></blockquote><div><blockquote type="cite">I suspect that the IP address of the tun0 interface is 10.31.0.6 from your tcpdump above.<br></blockquote><br></div>That is correct 10.0.0.1/8. 10.31.0.6 is another machine at the other end of the tunnel broadcasting.</div><div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;">IIRC you have to join multicast group on all interfaces you expect to receive mustcast packets on.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;">	</span>Received packet, len=128<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;">	</span>etc<br><br>But yields no output if ran against above tun0 interface (while tcpdump on same is fine). Does that ring a bell with anyone ?<br><br>Dw<br><br><br>int main(int argc, char *argv[])<br>{<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;struct sockaddr_in addr;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;struct ip_mreq mreq;<br><br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;">	</span>// skip error trapping command line arguments<br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;char* ip = argv[1];<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;char* group = argv[2];<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;int port = atoi(argv[3]); // 0 if error, which is an invalid port<br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;memset(&amp;addr, 0, sizeof(addr));<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;addr.sin_family = AF_INET;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;addr.sin_addr.s_addr = htonl(INADDR_ANY);<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;addr.sin_port = htons(port);<br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;mreq.imr_interface.s_addr = inet_addr(ip);<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;mreq.imr_multiaddr.s_addr = inet_addr(group);<br><br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;">	</span>// skip error trapping on inet_addr<br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;int fd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, 0);<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;">	</span>// skip error trapping socket<br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;if (bind(fd, (struct sockaddr*) &amp;addr, sizeof(addr)) &lt; 0) {<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;">	</span>// skip error trapping<br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;if (setsockopt(fd, IPPROTO_IP, IP_ADD_MEMBERSHIP, (char*) &amp;mreq, sizeof(mreq)) &lt; 0 ){<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;">	</span>// skip error trapping argumetns<br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;while (1) {<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;">	</span>..<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;int nbytes = recvfrom(fd,msgbuf,MSGBUFSIZE,0,(struct sockaddr *) &amp;addr,&amp;addrlen);<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;if (nbytes &lt; 0) {<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;perror("recvfrom");<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;return 1;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;}<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;">	</span>printf(?Received packet, len=%d\n", nbytes);<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;}<br><br></blockquote></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>

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