Re: multicast in 2.1

Maciej W. Rozycki (macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl)
Fri, 18 Sep 1998 12:03:14 +0200 (MET DST)


Hi,

> > BTW, what is the proper way to set up multicast routes on multihomed
> > machines so the packets go to all interfaces capable of multicasting? For
> > example, I'd like to know how to perform `ping NTP.MCAST.NET' on a
> > multicast router running `mrouted' to get responses from all NTP clients
> > attached to any of its interfaces an not only from these attached to,
> > say, eth0.
>
> 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.

Maciej

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