Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 12:27:21 +0000 From: Marko Zec <zec@icir.org> To: Bruce M Simpson <bms@incunabulum.net> Cc: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Reinhard Haller <reinhard.haller@interactive-net.de> Subject: Re: 7.0-BETA2 routed and multicast registration Message-ID: <200711171227.21855.zec@icir.org> In-Reply-To: <473ECE70.7070705@incunabulum.net> References: <4732110D.3090808@interactive-net.de> <473ECE70.7070705@incunabulum.net>
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On Saturday 17 November 2007 11:20:16 Bruce M Simpson wrote: > Hi, > > I'm catching up on FreeBSD email after a long hiatus. > > Reinhard Haller wrote: > > Hi, > > > > routed has problems with setsockopt registering itself for > > multicast. The trace contains the following messages: > > > > IP_ADD_MEMBERSHIP ALLROUTERS: Can't assign requested address > > turn on RIP > > setsockopt(IP_ADD_MEMBERSHIP RIP): Can't assign requested address > > setsockopt(rdisc_sock,IP_MULTICAST_IF): Can't assign requested > > address > > That's because the ip_multicast_if() hack has been deprecated in > -CURRENT for months now, because routed (and other multicast > applications) really should be using the RFC 3678 APIs. > > I'm pretty sure I already pointed people at patches for converting > routed to use the updated multicast APIs much earlier in the year; > please check the archives, or see here: > http://people.freebsd.org/~bms/dump/routed.rfc3678.diff > > I haven't tested or committed the routed patch due to a lack of user > feedback, sadly -- which is regrettable, we all end up feeling the > pain during a release cycle if issues aren't nipped in the bud there > and then. Note that with a recent port of Quagga multicast doesn't work as well, so now we don't have neither RIP nor OSPF support there which is kind of funny. Though I think it's not only the missing RFC1724 support in the kernel that is crippling mcast support in Quagga... Marko > Marko: I would much prefer it if ip_multicast_if() is not > reintroduced to 7-CURRENT. > > kind regards, > BMS
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