On Saturday 16 June 2007 00:06:12 John Merryweather Cooper wrote: > Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > In message <46730545.8050005_at_yahoo.com>, John Merryweather Cooper writes: > >>> Any ideas ? > >> > >> # /sbin/route add -static -net 224.0.0.0 -netmask 240.0.0.0 -iface > >> sis[1|2] > >> > >> I had to do this so my OpenSlp would work. > > > > I just got to about the same conclusion, only I used: > > > > route add -net 224.0.0.0/4 127.0.0.1 > > > > I'd say this is a bug... > > I got the idea from a web page with the instructions for setting up > OpenSlp on Linux. I note that mDNS seems to need this too. To me, > it makes sense because you need an interface to actually receive/send > multicast on--and that's what 224.0.0.0/4 is for. An explicit route to send multicast packets wasn't needed in 4.x days - having an interface join the target mcast group was enough. MarkoReceived on Fri Jun 15 2007 - 20:32:40 UTC
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