[streaming] Re: Configuring Multicast

[balawieh at site.uottawa.ca]

Hello Dani

What type of OS supports IGMP v3 and which supports IGMP v2



> Hi Prasad!
> Be careful with multicasts:
> - in a LAN with normal switches this is nothing more than broadcast. If
> your
> switches support IGMP snooping v2 or v3 you have to enable it. (if the
> switches support only v2 try to force the clients to use v2 also...
> depending on the OS)
> - otherwise, with a router, you also need a multicast enabled.
>
> Good luck,
> ..Dani
>
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: streaming-bounce at videolan.org
>> [mailto:streaming-bounce at videolan.org] On Behalf Of Paul Rae
>> Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 11:21 AM
>> To: streaming at videolan.org
>> Subject: [streaming] Re: Configuring Multicast
>>
>>
>> Your problem is you are trying to give your ethernet
>> interface a multicast address - you do not need to do this.
>>
>> set it to be a normal address on your subnet, and all will be good :)
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: streaming-bounce at videolan.org
>> [mailto:streaming-bounce at videolan.org]On Behalf Of prasad
>> Sent: 08 June 2005 06:42
>> To: streaming at videolan.org
>> Subject: [streaming] Re: Configuring Multicast
>>
>>
>> Thanks for the reply.
>>
>> I tried with this command and checked the route  table and I got the
>> following information
>>
>> > Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref
>> > Use Iface
>> > 192.168.4.0     *               255.255.255.0   U     0
>>  0
>> > 0 eth0
>> > 169.254.0.0     *               255.255.0.0     U     0
>>  0
>> > 0 eth0
>> > 224.0.0.0       *               240.0.0.0       U     0
>>  0
>> > 0 eth0
>> > default         192.168.4.1     0.0.0.0         UG    0
>>  0
>> > 0 eth0
>>
>> Now I have one doubt , we should create one multicast IP
>> address right...
>>     I tried with the following command
>>        ifconfig eth0 224.0.0.12 and getting this error
>> SIOCSIFADDR: Invalid argument .
>>
>> can you please help me this problem....
>>
>> Thanks in Advance
>> Prasad
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> deon stoltz wrote:
>>
>> >On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 09:20 +0530, prasad wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >>Hi All,
>> >>
>> >>       I want test vlc streaming through UDP multicast.Please can
>> >>anybody tell
>> >>       me how to configure multicast in linux.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>> >I assume you have read the manual how to setup vlc?
>> >For multicast you must setup the linux routing like
>> >routte add -net 224.0.0.0 netmask 240.0.0.0 dev ethx
>> >where ethx is the interface you need to send all multicast packets.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >>Thanks in Advance
>> >>Prasad
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
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