Hi, This may not be very relevant to the type of discussions done via this mailing list but doesn't heart to ask anyway. So here it goes:
I have a laptop running linux and configure as the gateway between a local subnet and the our corporate network. I will call this the "Linux Gateway" from this point on. The "Linux Gateway" runs iptables and NATs for all traffics between the private subnet and corporate network. I have developed two simple java applications for sending and receiving multicast traffic. I have a computer connected to the corporate networking generating multicast traffic. Another computer on the private subnet ,behind the "Linux Gateway", receiving that multicast traffic. However, with the current configuration of my linux box I am not able to get the multicast traffic through to the private side. This is actually what I expected because there must be some software on the "Linux Gateway" that understand the IGMP requests and takes care of group management. I guess I can configure my the "Linux Gateway" to route multicast traffic and that will probabaly solve this problem. But this is not what I really want to do because I have heard that multicast routing protocols are just too complicated. I am looking for the simpliest possile soluation to solve this problem. In some ways, I need a piece of software that "Proxies" the IGMP messages. thanks for any insight, Regards, Amir Khandani Broadband Systems Engineering Broadcom
