enabling multicast on FC5
Jason Dravet
dravet at hotmail.com
Thu Jun 8 12:27:13 UTC 2006
>On Thu, 8 Jun 2006 at 14:08:19 Paul Dwerryhouse wrote:
>>On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 08:50:21PM -0500, Jason Dravet wrote:
>>How can I enable multicast on my fully patched FC5 PC?
>
>It's enabled in the default FC5 kernel, so it should only be necessary
>to add a route to the multicast network.
>
>To do this from the command line (non-permanent), use:
>
>route add -net 224.0.0.0/4 dev eth0
>
>To make it permanent, in the file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/route-eth0
>(on FC4) I have:
>
>224.0.0.0/4 dev eth0
Thank you for the advice. I added the route and the application does not
work. The server is listening (according to netstat -a), but does not hear
the client. Do you have any other suggestions?
Thanks,
Jason
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