RE: Interesting issue while testing multicast. TTL value from

From: Joseph Brunner (joe@affirmedsystems.com)
Date: Wed Jul 23 2008 - 02:13:44 ART


That is very nice to know, thanks Greg.

I wonder if this applies to other linux distros as well...

Or can be changed in the ip*.c & .h files and fixed with a recompile?

Anyone?

Thanks,

Joe

-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of Greg
Wendel
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 12:59 AM
To: Cisco certification
Subject: Interesting issue while testing multicast. TTL value from linux
box.

While testing a multicast setup I ran into an issue where my test linux box
couldn't work as a multicast source.

The problem ended up being the TTL on the multicast ping packets.
Apparently the default behavior on my distro, Centos, is to set the TTL to 1
on multicast pings.

I added the -t flag and magically everything worked.

ping 233.1.1.1 -t 101

Hope this helps someone.

-- 
Gregory Wendel, CCIE #20179(R&S)
Springfield VA, 22153


This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.4 : Mon Aug 04 2008 - 06:11:56 ART