Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 12:52:06 -0700 From: Steve Deering <deering@cisco.com> To: Mark Handley <mjh@ISI.EDU> Cc: mbone@ISI.EDU, freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Mbone "terminal" Message-ID: <v03110702b1581c38ed51@[171.69.199.124]> In-Reply-To: <14827.892483023@north.lcs.mit.edu>
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At 8:57 AM -0700 4/13/98, Mark Handley wrote: > In any event, the solution I've ended up with is to configure a > multicast capable FreeBSD "discard" interface, and to set the route > for 224/4 to point there. > > To do this you need to patch if_disc.c to not set IFF_LOOPBACK. > I.e., change: > ifp->if_flags = IFF_LOOPBACK | IFF_MULTICAST; > to > ifp->if_flags = IFF_MULTICAST | IFF_BROADCAST; > > and then build the kernel with: > #discard interface for multicast packets > pseudo-device disc 1 Don't you also have to assign a legal, global address and subnet mask to the discard interface, so there's an address to put in the source field of multicast packets orginating there, and a subnet number (perhaps a /32) for mrouted to advertise? Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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