Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] Multicast help

[Mats L. <mat...@bo...>]

I'm no multicast expert, but in case no one else answers:

I've heard a discussion about this, and the conclution was that to get multicast
through a router, you have two options:
1) Make static route entries for the specific multicast groups you're interested
in
2) Make use of the multicast protocol named something, which has as its sole
purpose to dynamically change routes for multicast depending on who subscribes
to what

As for number one, you should be able to just forward all multicast traffic. Not
very bandwidth friendly, but if you just want it to work...

Not sure if the above helped you, I'm stretching my knowledge to the limit
here...

/Mats

fondue halflife wrote:

> I've been trying to setup a simple multicast router to test a multicast
> application for a class and can't seem to get it to work.  I have the pc
> routing regular traffic but can't get it to pass the multicast group
> information to make the route.
>
> Has anyone had luck with multicast?  I'm guessing I'm missing a step or I
> need to add a route.
>
> Thanks,
>
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