[Devil-Linux-discuss] Multicast Routing does not work

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Hello everybody!

I installed a Devil-Linux router (V. 1.2.9) in our Network an need 
multicast-routing to run for our Novell-Clients. I googled the net for 
solutions and found a hint to add a static route for the multicast-net 
on the interface on which the novell-server resides. 
(http://www.informatikserver.at/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=10074&Itemid=99999999). 


But this did not work. On the router I can ping the multicast address 
239.255.255.253 to reach the Novell Servers, on a client that resides in 
another ip-segment than the server I can't ping. Tcpdump shows nothing 
on the serverside interface. I'm wondering if the DL kernel supports 
multicast routing and if not how I can compile a new kernel with 
multicast routing support.

Additionally I found that for the Service Location Protocol (SLP) which 
is used by the Novell client to look up the Novell servers "pim" is 
needed. There's something like pimd for linux, is it included in DL? If 
not, how can I include it? Or is obsolete, if the kernel supports 
multicast routing?

Thanks in advance,
Alexander Roos