enabling multicast on FC5
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Thu Jun 8 13:33:41 UTC 2006
On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 07:27, 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?
Try tcpdump or ethereal to see if the data is actually reaching
the interface.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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