[Openais] RE: GMI across a router

[Sabharwal, Atul]

The setup is exactly like you mentioned. Even ping on 224.0.0.11 gets
response
>From two out of three nodes. I do not have an actual router to test
with.

I guess I will have to just forget about it for now and leave it for
someone
Else to try.

--
Atul
 

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Steven Dake [mailto:sdake at mvista.com] 
>Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 4:27 PM
>To: Sabharwal, Atul
>Cc: openais at lists.osdl.org
>Subject: RE: GMI across a router
>
>I asume your setup is something like:
>
>some machines on a network A - switch - eth0 on router - linux router -
>eth1 on router - switch - some machines on network B
>
>In this configuration you should be able to ping the address 224.0.0.1
>on network A and you should get responses from every machine on both
>network A and network B.
>
>Then try pinging a unicast address from network A to network B.
>
>If both of these work, then your router is probably routing the packets
>correctly.
>
>I'm not sure how to setup the linux router to work correctly.  Another
>option is to use an actual hardware router if you have one.  I don't
>which is why I haven't tested this :)
>
>Thanks
>-steve
>
>On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 15:50, Sabharwal, Atul wrote:
>> >I'm afraid I dont have many ideas on this Atul.  It might 
>be helpful to
>> >try 226.94.1.0 as a route (vs 226.94.1.1) , or to add a 
>default route
>> >for 226.94.1.0 for eth0 and eth1.
>> 
>> I added default routes as 226.94.1.0 for both interfaces but 
>when I do
>> Ping all nodes do not respond. I have not done a packet 
>trace but seems
>> Like the ping program is not sending the ICMP request on both the
>> interfaces.
>> As when I hardcode the interface, it responds.  I could look 
>for a patch
>> For ping but the problem does not end there.
>> 
>> I have 3 nodes in the multicats group. One on the router and 
>one on each
>> Side. Two nodes join the multicast group but the one behind 
>the router
>> Is Stand alone.  This means its just not ping but multicast routing
>> Is not working.
>> 
>> --
>> Atul
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