I haven't worked with multicast much, but from my understanding you
may have to join the router to the multicast domain.

On 6/15/06, Mayo, Richard A RDECOM CERDEC STCD SRI
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I believe this is a simple fix, but I sure can't find it.

I set up 2 FreeBSD boxes as dual-stack network routers and I'm using them to 
test an application capable of generating both TCP and UDP messaging.  The TCP 
part of this equation is working great -- my message fly around the network 
just like they should.

However, my routers appear to be eating my multicast UDP packets.  The packets 
are addressed to 225.0.0.41 and static routes for that prefix are defined in 
both rc.conf files (I only use 1 multicast address, so I don't see a reason to 
use a multicast routing daemon).  Obviously, I don't believe the static route 
is defined correctly.

Can somebody clue me in to the proper method for configuring a FreeBSD 
computer, functioning as a network router, to accept all packets addressed to 
225.0.0.41 on either Ethernet interface and forward them out the other??  
(they're RL0 and RL1, lower case.)

Do I need to define 2 static routes?
Do I need to switch something else on?



Thanks for any help,
Rich Mayo



P.S.  It may be significant that when I installed the OS on the computer, there was only 
1 NIC present.  I added the other one after I got the software running, so it occurs to 
me that there may be a switch relating to forwarding that's not "ON", but I 
have no idea where to look for that.
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