[Xorp-users] multicast routing not working

[James Courtier-Dutton]

2008/6/19 Dr Ben G Wu <ben at sparkcomputing.co.uk>:
> Hello,
> I just found xorp 2 days ago and try to setup a multicast network. The
> source is at 192.168.1.0/24 subnet and the multicast subscribers are
> in 192.168.2.0/24 subnet. Centos 5 is running xorp with 2 physical
> interfaces connecting the 2 subnets.
>
> xorp is installed and xorp_rtrmgr running fine. The src is playing a
> stream on 244.0.0.1:1234 using vcl player.  but the client could not
> connect to 244.0.0.1.  the command " show mfea dataflow" returns
> nothing.
>
> My configuration file is as below.
<snip>
>        static-rps {
>            rp 192.168.1.1 {
>                group-prefix 224.0.0.0/4 {
>                    /*rp-priority: 192
>                    hash-mask-len: 30*/
>                }
>            }
>            rp 192.168.2.1 {
>                group-prefix 224.0.0.0/4 {
>                    rp-priority: 192
>                    hash-mask-len: 30
>                }
>            }
>        }
>

The problem was that you had two rp entries when you should have had just one.