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Les Mikesell wrote: > On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 20:42 +0100, Hans-Peter Mani wrote: > > >> 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 ? >> > > Assuming you aren't using the .0 and .3 addresses, you could > ifconfig the interface to use a netmask of 255.255.255.252 > which might work if it wants to see a traditional 4-host subnet > for the route instead of a p-t-p link. > > How does that look like ? Do you change the netmask by using ifconfig tun0 netmask 255.255.255.252 Do you have to change the routing table ? > I haven't used mrouted, but have run multicast over openvpn using > the static router smcroute. If you know the multicast group > and potential senders ahead of time you can set up static > routes to forward them. > How does that look like ? hp ______________________ OpenVPN mailing lists https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users |