From: Rado Vasilev (decklandv@gmail.com)
Date: Wed Jul 23 2008 - 17:25:07 ART
Haha ;)
I remember a case a few years ago when we spent 2 hours looking for an
issue with our PIM network, which finally turned out to be a multicast
source using a default TTL of 1 ;)
Rado
> 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.
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