On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Evgeny
Yurchenko<[email protected]> wrote:
>> > What I am trying to understand here is "how should it work"?
>> > 'IGMP proxy' means that it should proxy IGMP-packets. Ok,
>> now I got it working with some modification of its code.
>> > Now IGMP from downstream interface is proxied to upstream
>> interface. Device on upstream interface start multicasting on
>> this network segmen, so pfSense starts receiving multicast
>> stream on upstream interface. Now the question, what should
>> happen with these multicast packets?
>> > 1) kernel shoud route them to downstream interface.
>> > 2) igmpproxy should be receiving them and transmitting on
>> downstream interface.
>> > Your thoughts please?
>> >
>>
>> Yeah kernel should do the routing.
>> I think there might be a sysctl for alloing multicast
>> forwarding to work but that should be activated when you
>> create the socket(to be verified!).
>>
>> I will give it a look soon and find the solution that feets all.
>>
>> Though on 2.0 based on 8.0 freebsd it works without as it is.
>>
> where can I get this snapshot please?
> http://snapshots.pfsense.org/FreeBSD_RELENG_8_0/pfSense_HEAD?C=M;O=D
> does not work for me.
>

There aren't any at the moment because some FreeBSD changes broke our
patches and they need to be fixed, check back later, might be a few
days until they're back.

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