On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, Jeff Gutierrez wrote:
> IP multicasting has never been enabled in the box
that's the reason why your linux router logged the msg. since it did not
understand multicast packets (no builtin support in kernel), it logged the
packet for reference/alert.
> (it's my LAN gateway, and router to the inet).
your cable modem is the real router to the internet but since it's been
given to u as a black box by AT&T, you placed a linux router in between
the cable modem and your internal lan to regain network control right?
> figure out how to turn it off at the cable modem level.. and if the
> multicast packets are needed by my inet-over-cable provider at all
> (perhaps AT&T is used it as a keep-alive signal?)
if at&t uses it for house-keeping, then you may wish to at least
stop the cable modem from sending out multicast traffic out of it's
ethernet interface. di rin naman papansinin ng linux router mo diba?
pong
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