[Xorp-hackers] {Disarmed} Re: xorp: enable IGMP/PIM-SM over a VLAN interface on Linux

frank hu frank.1975.hu at gmail.com
Wed Dec 7 23:03:08 PST 2011


Thanks Ben. I will give this another try by removing the
"default-system-config" from the VLANs and see how they work.

So far I am testing on x86 system and the device will be x86_64, which I
assume it should work as well if xorp works on x86.

Again, thanks for all of the help!

Frank

On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 10:15 PM, Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com> wrote:

> On 12/07/2011 09:58 PM, frank hu wrote:
>
>> Hi, Ben and Ray,
>> Thanks a lot for the kind help and open feedback.
>> I am investigating putting xorp as the multicast routing engine for our
>> network device running Linux. From the CLIs I can see that it provides the
>> set of
>> multicast routing features that I am interested in. The reason that xorp
>> seems attractive to me is that it was listed as one test implementations in
>> RFC 4602.
>> However the deficiency in the VLAN interfaces support is a big no-no on
>> Linux based software routers.
>> Thanks again!!
>>
>
> We've tested multicast on VLANs, and it works fine (for us, in our
> configurations).
>
> Please try without using the default-system-config and post logs and
> enough info to reproduce
> the problem if if fails.
>
> If you are using some non x86 system, try on x86 to make sure it's not some
> platform specific issue.  I fixed some of that since the last release, so
> you
> might try cloning the latest code from github.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Ben
>
> --
> Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com>
> Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com
>
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