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To: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
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Subject: Re: multi-cast + proxy arp ? 
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Date: Sun, 27 Oct 1996 21:06:39 -0800
From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
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Hi Archie,

Try to post your mbone related questions to multimedia@freebsd.org

You can set a tunnel between your host and the mrouted at the other
end with no problems.
Just read the manpage on mrouted. Also it will not cost you a subnet.

	Regards,
	Amancio
>From The Desk Of Archie Cobbs :
> 
> The mbone is cool! So cool that I want to get it at home too :-)
> 
> I have a dial-in over PPP account that uses proxy arp on the server side.
> The server's ethernet is mbone-aware, and the server machine runs mbone
> apps just fine.
> 
> Question: can multi-cast to the client ever work? I've tried all kinds
> of combos, none of which have worked. And if not, why does tun0 have
> the MULTICAST flag? What does that mean?
> 
> If I had a valid, routeable IP address to use on the client side I could
> set up a tunnel using mrouted... but routeable subnets aren't cheap...
> 
> I've tried setting up a tunnel to a fake IP address on the client; and
> the mrouted routing stuff seems to (sortof) work, but nothing shows up
> in "sdr"...
> 
> -Archie
> 
> ___________________________________________________________________________
> Archie Cobbs   *   Whistle Communications, Inc.  *   http://www.whistle.com
>