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From: "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@star-gate.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: multicast configuration under 2.1?
Date: Sat, 25 May 1996 18:45:59 -0700
Organization: TLGnet Inc., (formerly The Little Garden)
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CC: Bernard Aboba <aboba@netcom.com>

Bernard Aboba wrote:
> 
> I've got 2.1 release up, and am having some trouble getting multicast up.
> I recompiled the kernel with MROUTING; however, doing a netstat -g reveals
> no virtual interfaces; mrouted aborts, claiming it can't enable multicast
> on the chosen interface (ix0); other routines such as mtrace report similar
> problems.
> 
> On some systems I've used, there is a separate variable for MULTICAST and
> MROUTING.
> 
> Has anyone got this working on 2.1 RELEASE, and care to give example
> configuration info?

If you have ip multicast traffic already flowing thru your interfaces
then you don't  need to run mrouted.

Whether you are running mrouted or not, you will have to add something
like this in order to process ip multicast packets:

route add 224.0.0.0 -netmask 0xf0000000 -interface $hostname


Check out http://rah.star-gate.com/~hasty/mbone.html

	Have fun

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