Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 3 Apr 2001 20:21:54 -0400 (EDT) | From | Dave Bailey <> | Subject | Multicast tunneling in 2.4 |
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I am trying to set up a tunnel from my linux machine to the MBone.
My kernel (2.4.2) supports multicasting and advanced routing:
CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST=y CONFIG_IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER=y CONFIG_IP_MROUTE=y
I have read http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Multicast-HOWTO.html and http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Adv-Routing-HOWTO.html. Unfortunately, Section 7 of the Advanced Routing HOWTO (Multicast routing) says:
"FIXME: Editor Vacancy! (somebody is working on it, though)"
Suppose I know the IP address of a nearby multicast router and would like to set up a tunnel from my machine to that router (a tunnel to the MBone), so that I may receive multicast datagrams in spite of the fact that intervening routers are ignorant of multicast routing protocols. Is this possible with the 2.4.2 kernel? I cannot find documentation to this effect, but the existence of <linux/mroute.h> (which contains some structs previously defined in mrouted) makes me think that it is possible.
-- Dave Bailey dave@daveb.net
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