Hello everybody, I'm attempting to get a multicast router running under a 2.6.8 kernel (running on a mips32 embedded processor). I am in the process of getting xorp 1.1 ported to the mips32 environment. Unfortunately that's taking longer than expected. In the meantime, I'd like to prove that I can get multicast routing working on the platform and have fallen back on mrouted_3.9-beta3, which, using debian patches, I have been able to compile (and get running) for the mips32. However, I have been unable to get mrouted to actually forward multicast channels to applications joining a particular channel. Since mrouted is a pretty elderly package, I'm not sure whether I can reasonably expect it to work with a 2.6.x kernel at all. Considerable searching of the internet has produced no definitive answer, since some people are of the opinion that mysterious changes have been made to multicast routing code (eg see http://openvpn.net/archive/openvpn-users/2004-04/msg00005.html or http://lists.quagga.net/pipermail/quagga-users/2004-August/002546.html) - on the other hand net/ipv4/ipmr.c has a number of references to mrouted indicating that the code is designed with mrouted oddities in mind. So, the short question is, is it possible to make mrouted_3.9 (or 3.8 or whatever) work with a 2.6.x kernel, or should I give mrouted up as a lost cause? Much thanks Andrew - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
