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From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Mrouted
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 06:29:37 -0700
Organization: Erols Internet Services
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Jamie Bowden wrote:
> 
> I have a mbone tunnel to my home machine via ppp link, and am getting
> errors I don't know what to do with.
> 
> debug level 2
> 16:57:58.373 mrouted version 3.6
> 16:57:58.397 Getting vifs from kernel interfaces
> 16:57:58.403 installing ed0 (192.168.0.1 on subnet 192.168.0/24) as vif
> #0 - rate=0
> 16:57:58.409 installing ppp0 (128.82.5.54 on subnet 128.82/16) as vif #1
> - rate=0
> 16:57:58.414 Getting vifs from /etc/mrouted.conf
> 16:57:58.419 Installing vifs in kernel...
> 16:57:58.423 vif #0, phyint 192.168.0.1
> 16:57:58.429 vif #1, phyint 128.82.5.54
> 16:57:58.433 warning - can't join group 224.0.0.4 on interface
> 128.82.5.54: Can't assign requested address
> 16:57:58.445 warning - can't join group 224.0.0.2 on interface
> 128.82.5.54: Can't assign requested address
> 16:57:58.474 setsockopt IP_MULTICAST_IF 128.82.5.54: Can't assign
> requested address
> 

Isn't 224.0.0.x a local-only address, like 10.0.0.x? If so, then 224... 
cannot be used in any way externally to your home subnet, including via 
PPP.
-- 

Ken

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