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Why isn't my Linux box forwarding multicast packets?

Why isn't my Linux box forwarding multicast packets?

Post by Wei » Fri, 27 May 2005 05:09:18



My setup is as follows:

A ---------> B ---------> C
        eth0   eth1

A: 192.168.1.224
B eth0: 192.168.1.219 eth1: 192.168.1.711
C: 192.168.7.111

A and B are both out-of-box redhat 9 machine. C is windows 2000. The
traffic flows as the arrow's direction. The B is the multicast router
and I want multicast packets coming out from A to be forwarded from
SubnetAB to Subnet BC.

I enabled packet forwarding on B (echo 1 > /proc.../ip_forward) and it
worked I can ping C from A. I also added a route for 224.0.0.1 on B
(route add -net 224.0.0.0/4 netmask 240.0.0.0 dev eth0), and I am
really only interested in uni-directional multicast forwarding.

I compiled mrouted and started it with everything set as default.

./mrouted -d

Afterwards, I can see the multicast packets coming in from eth0, but
they never were forwarded to eth1.

tcpdump output on B:

B:>tcpdump -i eth1 ip multicast

15:27:03.145280 192.168.7.111 > 239.7.7.8: igmp v2 report 239.7.7.8
[ttl 1]
15:27:04.422349 192.168.7.211 > dvmrp.mcast.net: igmp v2 report
dvmrp.mcast.net (DF) [ttl 1]
15:27:04.512361 192.168.7.211 > all-routers.mcast.net: igmp v2 report
all-routers.mcast.net (DF) [ttl 1]
15:27:07.040699 192.168.7.211 > dvmrp.mcast.net: igmp dvmrp Probe [tos
0xc0]  [ttl 1]
15:27:11.155794 192.168.7.111 > 224.224.1.100: igmp v2 report
224.224.1.100 [ttl 1]

As you can see here, C was trying to join the 224.224.1.100 multicast
group.

B:>tcpdump -i eth0 ip multicast

15:33:52.230373 192.168.1.224.8100 > 224.224.1.100.8100: udp 188 (DF)
[ttl 1]
15:33:52.230380 192.168.1.224.8100 > 224.224.1.100.8100: udp 188 (DF)
[ttl 1]
15:33:52.230385 192.168.1.224.8100 > 224.224.1.100.8100: udp 188 (DF)
[ttl 1]
15:33:52.230390 192.168.1.224.8100 > 224.224.1.100.8100: udp 132 (DF)
[ttl 1]
15:33:52.230394 192.168.1.224.8100 > 224.224.1.100.8100: udp 8 (DF)
[ttl 1]

As you can see here, the UDP multicast packet traffic is going very
well on eth0.

The kernel is a vanilla 2.4.20-31.9 i686 kernel. The likely multicast
routing related options had all been compiled in.

CONFIG_IP_MROUTE=y
CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST=y

What am I missing? This had been puzzling me for the past few days. Any
help would be appreciated! Thanks!

Wei

 
 
 
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Why isn't my Linux box forwarding multicast packets?

Post by Wei » Fri, 27 May 2005 05:15:05



> My setup is as follows:

> A ---------> B ---------> C
>         eth0   eth1

> A: 192.168.1.224
> B eth0: 192.168.1.219 eth1: 192.168.1.711

ugh. should have double checked the post before submitting it.

B eth1 should be 192.168.7.211

Thanks!

Wei

 
 
 
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I only know enough about networking to make me dangerous...

I am using a Linksys DSL Router w/4-port switch to run a small home
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I used to have 4 Windows boxes on this network, but I recently
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On the Linux box, I can get to the Web via a browser, and I can ping
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From any of the Windows boxes (2 XP and 1 2000 Server) I can ping the
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So, I'm guessing the Linux box must be using my DSL-provider's DNS
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