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.
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