--- In "Jim George" <> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I am using a TS7250 board with kernel 2.4.26-ts9. I'm unable to get
> multicast to work properly. The kernel comes with multicast support
> (ifconfig shows eth0 as supporting it). I manually added a route using:
>
> route add -net 224.0.0.0 netmask 240.0.0.0 dev eth0
>
> It seems like the board can only send packets to other multicast
machines.
> It doesn't seem to want to receive them. Doing a ping 224.0.0.1 from the
> TS7250 shows a list of available mcast hosts, but doing the same from
> another machine does not show the TS7250's IP address.
>
> Please let me know if there's a solution to this. There was an earlier
> message posted on this topic on Jul 18, 2006, with no response.
> -Jim
>
At one point we were successfully using multicasting on a TS7200 in
our application. We have since switched to unicast for network
overhead reasons. However, and if I remember correctly, in order to
maintain your multicast routes you need a program running that tells
the kernel what do with multicast packets.
Because I was able to get it to compile relatively painlessly, and
because we only ever used static routes I ended up using smcroute to
do the job. http://www.cschill.de/smcroute/. mroute is another program
that I came across in our research that does the job and is used in
cases where dynamic routing is necessary. I never did get mroute to
compile correctly.
Good luck with this. The other thing I remember is the horrible state
of help/documentation available on the topic.
-Mike Van Orden
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