[Xorp-users] Multicast over GRE tunnel with Xorp.

[Ben Greear]

On 09/23/2011 02:22 PM, Vladimir Glafirov wrote:
> On 9/23/2011 6:14 PM, Ben Greear wrote:
>> On 09/23/2011 05:32 AM, Vladimir Glafirov wrote:
>>> On 09/22/2011 09:51 PM, Ben Greear wrote:
>>>> On 09/21/2011 04:48 AM, Vladimir Glafirov wrote:
>>>>> Dear Xorp users.
>>>>>
>>>>> I am really new in Linux routing.
>>>>>
>>>>> I am trying to setup multicast routing through GRE tunnel on RHEL5
>>>>> (2.6.18 kernel) with xorp.
>>>>
>>>> Someone just opened a bug with some good details. Seems
>>>> GRE tunnels have their IPs messed up by xorp for some reason.
>>>>
>>>> http://www.xorp.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=102
>>>>
>>>> Can you check to see if your system shows similar
>>>> symptoms?
>>>
>>> Ben.
>>>
>>> Yes. I've also noticed same behavior of xorp 1.8.3 with GRE tunnel. Could it be fixed?
>>
>> I'm pretty sure I can fix it quickly, but first I have to reproduce
>> it on a machine I can debug on. If someone has some scripts to set up
>> a GRE tunnel between two linux boxes, please post them...
>
> Hi Ben.
>
> I used ifcfg scripts to create GRE tunnel on my RedHat machine:
>
> --- /etc/sysconfig/network-scripst/ifcfg-tun0 --
> DEVICE=tun0
> BOOTPROTO=none
> ONBOOT=yes
> TYPE=GRE
> PEER_OUTER_IPADDR=172.18.172.31
> PEER_INNER_IPADDR=192.168.2.1
> MY_INNER_IPADDR=192.168.1.1
> -----------------------------------------------------------

I just committed something that might fix the problem for you.

Please pull the latest from the github git repository and
see if it works for you.

Thanks,
Ben

>
>
> Thank you in advance.
> Vladimir.
>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ben
>>
>>>
>>> Thank you.
>>>
>>> Vladimir.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Ben
>>>>
>>
>>


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