Messages in this thread | | | From | Rusty Russell <> | Subject | Re: Multicast and IP-conntrack problem | Date | Sat, 24 Mar 2001 20:58:07 +1100 |
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In message <NEBBLEJBILPLHPBNEEHIEEMCCAAA.mwilson@dds.nl> you write: > Hi! > > I'm having some problems with ip-connection tracking and multicast packets: > the conntrack stuff doesn't seem to be able to handle multicast packets, > flooding my logs with messages like these: > > Feb 28 15:53:00 procyon kernel: NAT: 0 dropping untracked packet c7105b00 1 > 195.38.203.147 -> 224.0.0.2
Yes. Connection tracking doesn't handle multicast. NAT drops packets not handled by connection tracking.
Making connection tracking handle multicast is a minor project in itself.
Rusty. -- Premature optmztion is rt of all evl. --DK - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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