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[Openvpn-users] Openvpn and rendezvous


  • Subject: [Openvpn-users] Openvpn and rendezvous
  • From: Hans-Peter Mani <hp@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2007 20:42:16 +0100

Hi

I am trying to get discovery service like apple's rendezvous working 
with openvpn tunnels. From what I googled I understand that i have to 
use a multicast router like mrouted. I am far away from being an expert 
but I tried to create a mrouted tunnel with something like this

ifconfig:

tun0  Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 
00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 
          inet addr:10.5.5.1  P-t-P:10.5.5.2  Mask:255.255.255.255
          UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:10051 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:60457 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
          RX bytes:1956681 (1.8 MiB)  TX bytes:82776222 (78.9 MiB)

/etc/mrouted.conf:

tunnel 10.5.5.1 10.5.5.2 metric 1 threshold 32


However, mrouted terminates immediately and reports

warning - ignoring tun0, has invalid address (10.5.5.1) and/or mask 
(255.255.255.255)

After some googling it seems mrouted does not work with mask 
255.255.255.255.

Can anyone confirm that this is the right way (using mrouted) to get 
rendezvous working ?
Can anyone help and can post a complete example ?

Any help appreciated
hp


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