On Sun, 12 May 2002, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: > On Fri, 10 May 2002, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > Multicast routing is always done by a daemon in user space, so you'll > > need to get one of these to work. > > If I may jump in. When booting my redhat 7.3 box with their kernel I get > his: > > NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 > IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP > IP: routing cache hash table of 16384 buckets, 128Kbytes > TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind 65536) > Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM > NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. > RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 > Freeing initrd memory: 244k freed > > The middle line there seems to suggest that the kernel should be able to > route mcast packets and even talk PIM Sparse Mode? That is a requirement for a user-space PIM-SM multicast routing daemon to work. It is not autonomous. -- Pekka Savola "Tell me of difficulties surmounted, Netcore Oy not those you stumble over and fall" Systems. Networks. Security. -- Robert Jordan: A Crown of Swords - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
