Re: How to make Linux route multicast traffic bi-directionly between multible subnets

Kevin P. Fleming
2004-04-19T20:15:39Z

Jose Luis Domingo Lopez wrote:

> So, to summarize, your best bet is to get "mrouted" or something like
> that, and have a look at the documentation bundled. You are quite right,
> multicast routing documentation for Linux seems to be quite old, rather
> short, and maybe out of date.

That it is, but if you use the mrouted source and patches from the
Debian distribution it's fairly easy to get a basic network working. It
took me a few days to get it all set up, but I now have a router that
routes multicast between local devices and two remotes over OpenVPN
tunnels. Setting up mrouted was actually pretty easy, once I figured out
that's what I needed and got the Debian patches so it would compile.