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Date:      Thu, 12 Jul 2001 09:24:01 -0500 (CDT)
From:      mark tinguely <tinguely@web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu>
To:        dcs@newsguy.com, net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Multicasting and routes
Message-ID:  <200107121424.f6CEO1040030@web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3B4D1432.78232E88@newsguy.com>

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>  It seems there is a problem in our IP stack with regards to
>  multicasting. The symptoms is the inability to send multicast packets on
>  correctly configured sockets in the absence of a default (or,
>  erroneously, multicast address being used) route.

I don't know if I am reading your question correctly, but have you
tried adding a multicast route? In /etc/rc.conf:

static_routes="multicast loopback"
route_multicast="224.0.0.0 -netmask 0xf0000000 -interface ${hostname}"

this allows only one interface to send the multicast packets, and requires
a multicast router to place the packets on the other interfaces.

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