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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