From: Claudio Jeker (cjekerdiehard.n-r-g.com)
Date: Tue Aug 01 2006 - 16:26:30 CDT

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On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 10:58:21PM +0200, Alex Berdan wrote:
> My point in here is to have a controlled multicast server over some
> IPSec tunnels (8 end points are in the picture). As I was trying with
> 2 end-points I saw that nothing is passing through.
> For the moment I'm having static routes and I want to switch over OSPF
> on all locations but I need the multicast(broadcast) passing through
> the VPN tunnels (IPSec)
> Can gif(4) help me in achieving this?
>

You can not route broadcast traffic and multicast traffic is only routable
if you are running a multicast routing daemon on the concentrator.
Maybe it is easier to use gif(4) interfaces and bridge(4) the together. In
that case they behave like a local LAN and multicast and broadcast will
just work.

>
> >
> >Gre(4) multicast code is broken -- at least it was so in May when I last
> >tested it. I invested once some time to debug it but got distracted by
> >real life issues. I fixed gif(4) so there mutlicasting will work.
> >If you can give gif(4) a try.
> >
> >--
> >:wq Claudio
> >
> >
>
>
> --
>
> Alex
>

--
:wq Claudio

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