Re: multicast in 2.1

kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru
Fri, 18 Sep 1998 14:54:59 +0400 (MSK DST)


Hello!

> > ping -t 2 NTP.MCAST.NET
>
> Hmm, it doesn't work for me. The only multicast traffic coming out from
> this machine through the non-default multicast interface are mrouted
> packets. Both pings and NTP packets (TTL = 4) go only through eth0.

It may mean two things: either other interfaces have no multicast
listeners and this multicast is already pruned or mrouted does not
work. 8)

You may test it by looking at /proc/net/ip_mr_cache and dumping
mrouted tables.

Alexey Kuznetsov

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