Subject: Linux mrouted configuration

From: Malcolm Beattie <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 16:15:39 +0100 (BST)

I mailed some instructions to [email-masked] for running mrouted
under Linux 2.0.x (X >= 8) earlier today and forgot to mention
(at least) one thing:
    # route add -net 127.0.0.0
is required since some internal communications go over loopback.
Older versions of some Linux distributions weren't quite so
careful with how they configured loopback and some new sanity
checking in recent net tools could make them fail silently.
If running "mrinfo" hangs instead of printing out a status report
then that is almost certainly the problem. Use "route -n" to check.

--Malcolm

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Malcolm Beattie <[email-masked]>
Unix Systems Programmer
Oxford University Computing Services