Re: Linux gateway - multicast problem

[Karsten Siebert <Karsten.Siebert@dataplanet.net>]

How does

cat /proc/net/ip_mr_cache
cat /proc/net/ip_mr_vif


look like once you joined a group from the NT machine ?

Can you check with mrouted -d3 if the NT sends a join message ?

Karsten


----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Bingham" <phil@ukmail.org>
To: <linux-dvb@linuxtv.org>
Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000 4:54 PM
Subject: Linux gateway - multicast problem


>
> Hi,
>
> I am having problems getting multicast routing working on my system.
>
> Setup:
>
> Linux Gateway
> Interfaces:
> dvb0 - Hauppauge DVB card
> eth0 - 3Com 3c905
> ppp0 - modem to ISP
>
> Network machine (WinNT)
> eth0 - 3Com 3c905
>
>
> I have installed the DVB card and can insmod the drivers, no problem. I am
> fairly sure that the card is happy, as I can run vdr and view sat TV
> channels. I have downloaded the dvbd 0.05 driver and run this, again no
> problems, I also run the mrouted from the dvbrouter package, and this
> seems to work.
>
> Doing a "tcpdump -i dvb0" while running Fazzt or
> http://www.europeonline.net/streamingvideo on the Windows box I get data
> from kr113 and sr113, respectively. This suggests that mrouted and the dvb
> stuff is OK.
>
> What I don't get is any multicast data on the ethernet segment. Anyone got
> any ideas? I am running SuSE 6.4 with the 2.2.14-SMP kernel, any options I
> need to enable?
>
> Anyone got any ideas, I'm sure someone else must have a similar setup.
>
> Regards,
>
> Phil.
>