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Re: Bugs in Net code
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bryn Paul Arnold Jones)
Fri Jul 19 22:02:39 1996
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 12:21:57 +0100 (BST)
From: Bryn Paul Arnold Jones <bpaj@gytha.demon.co.uk>
To: Malcolm Beattie <malcolm.beattie@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk>
cc: Alan Cox <iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk>, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu,
linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199607171243.NAA18765@sable.ox.ac.uk>
On Wed, 17 Jul 1996, Malcolm Beattie wrote:
> Alan Cox writes:
> > Can people having problems with multicast routing and tunnels try this diff and
> > see how it goes. Its a combo of patches several people have sent in. Also
> > contains the extra bridge fix.
>
> There is a slight difference in behaviour now but it's still no dice.
> mcast (SunOS) and boris (Linux) are on one subnet; plutonium (Linux)
> is on another. When I create a tunnel between plutonium and boris, no
> multicast applications run on either seem to be able to send across
> the tunnel. However, when I send a SIGUSR1 to each mrouted to get them
> to dump stats, I now see non-zero "pkts in/out" fields whereas last
> time (2.0.1+patch kit) I seem to remember that they were always zero.
>
> When I create a tunnel between plutonium and mcast, sdr sessions
> created on boris reach plutonium but sessions created on plutonium
> do not reach boris. This behaviour hasn't changed since last time.
>
Are you creating a tunnel, or a pair of tunnels ? Last I hurd was that a
tunnel is a oneway thing, and you need one going each way to do two way
communication.
> --Malcolm
>
>
Bryn
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