Re: Routing local multicast datagrams

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On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 02:22:53PM +0000, Ivo Steinmann wrote:
> 
> I have got a multicast router with mrouted as multicast routing daemon. 
> As long as the multicast datagrams come from eth[x] they are routed 
> correctly to eth[y] interface. But if the datagrams come from a prozess 
> that is running on the router, they are not routed corretly by mroute.

This is a known deficiency in the Linux multicast routing code.
See comment at the top of ip_mr_forward.

Alexey, could you give us a more detailed explanation on the
problems with supporting multicast applications on multicast
routers?

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