On Tue, 1 Jun 2010 15:08:19 +0530 "Singh, Animesh" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > Have been experimenting with bridged networking in order to connect VMs > located on separate physical machines. Unicast communication works fine but > multicast traffic in not being forwarded beyond the bridge. Looking at the > code am reaching the conclusion that bridge treats multicast traffic in same > way as broadcast, so why the multicast traffic is not flowing beyond the > bridge. Also does kernel tunable like mc_forwarding have any significance in > this matter? On the later version of linux 2.6.18 and after am finding this > tunable as read-only (and set to 0). The kernel being used has > CONFIG_IP_MROUTE enabled but its not running mrouted. > Are you using VMware? VMware doesn't really allow for bridging. _______________________________________________ Bridge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bridge
