From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Oct 28 05:00:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id FAA24339 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 28 Oct 1996 05:00:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from tyger.inna.net (root@tyger.inna.net [206.151.66.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id FAA24334 for ; Mon, 28 Oct 1996 05:00:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from spyder.inna.net (jamie@spyder.inna.net [206.151.66.4]) by tyger.inna.net (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA01978; Mon, 28 Oct 1996 08:10:07 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 08:06:45 -0500 (EST) From: Jamie Bowden To: Archie Cobbs cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: multi-cast + proxy arp ? In-Reply-To: <199610280046.QAA14854@bubba.whistle.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 27 Oct 1996, Archie Cobbs wrote: You will either have to turn on multicast routing on the term servers you go through (if they are even capable, most aren't), or get an ip and tunnel. > > 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 > Jamie Bowden Network Administrator, TBI Ltd.