QUESTION: what is the current story with multicast support for both sending and receiving multicast traffic?

BACKGROUND:

trying to get tomcat clustering working in vserver.

http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/cluster-howto.html

DETAILS:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] opt]# cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.4.30-vs1.2.10 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.2.3 20030502 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.3-52)) #1 Wed Aug 10 01:27:44 CDT 2005

[EMAIL PROTECTED] opt]# grep MULTICAST /boot/config-2.4.30-vs1.2.10
CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST=y

tomcat 5.5.12

i'm running debian sarge vservers on redhat enterprise linux 3.0 boxes at rackspace, using a stock kernel.org kernel with required tweaks for my hardware this is a production environment which has been supporting many apps beautifully for 3 months.

the basic idea is that i have multiple app layer boxes, which i want to distribute tomcat clusters. single instance of tomcat, running in a single vserver, per real host, per application. so if i have 3 apps, on 3 real servers, i'd have 9 total vservers across 3 clusters. i'm not even getting that far. my test setup is 2 real hosts, each with one vserver with an 'out of the box' tomcat cluster config. the tomcat instances aren't finding each other.

the stacktraces i'm getting on tomcat --shutdown-- are as follows, which doesn't look all that interesting, its in code looking for incoming connections on a tcp port, which never arrive, since the mcast conversation never happens (ReplicationListener.java:130):

SEVERE: Unable to process request in ReplicationListener
java.nio.channels.ClosedSelectorException
at sun.nio.ch.SelectorImpl.lockAndDoSelect(SelectorImpl.java: 55)
        at sun.nio.ch.SelectorImpl.select(SelectorImpl.java:70)
at org.apache.catalina.cluster.tcp.ReplicationListener.listen (ReplicationListener.java:130) at org.apache.catalina.cluster.tcp.ClusterReceiverBase.run (ClusterReceiverBase.java:394)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:534)


THINGS I"VE TRIED:

* add multicast ip to IPROOT. this just causes barf messages at vserver startup

Starting the virtual server v208
Server v208 is not running
SIOCSIFADDR: Invalid argument
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Cannot assign requested address
SIOCSIFNETMASK: Cannot assign requested address
SIOCGIFADDR: Cannot assign requested address
SIOCSIFBROADCAST: Cannot assign requested address
SIOCSIFBRDADDR: Cannot assign requested address
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Cannot assign requested address
ipv4root is now 192.168.1.208 228.0.0.4


*  enabled NET_ADMIN and NET_BROADCAST.  this offers no change

*  googling for multicast setup on vserver.  almost zero info.

http://www.paul.sladen.org/vserver/archives/200205/0090.html (no response)

http://list.linux-vserver.org/archive/vserver/msg08171.html (some progress, no resolution)

*  searching for multicast in vserver irc logs, almost zero info.

as usual, thanks in advance for any information.

take care,

<drew>
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