--- In "machv0" <> wrote:
>
> --- In "Jim George" <jimgeorge@> 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
>
make that mrouted, not mroute.
http://www.jukie.net/~bart/multicast/Linux-Mrouted-MiniHOWTO.html
Make that mrouted.
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