my box runs ubuntu 14.04. it is an old 32bit box with 4 ether nics. what i want to achieve is multicast routing from an upstream interface (eth2.8 - dynamic ip) to a downstream interfcae (eth0.13 - 192.168.40.1). my laptop attached to above box via eth0.13 can read multicast from 40.1 like a charm. i verified that by running vlc as a server on 40.1
cvlc -vvv ./POS-Movie-927x521.mov --sout udp:239.255.12.42 --ttl 12
and receiving the stream on my laptop with
vlc udp://@239.255.12.42
that works even the other way round, sending with my laptop and receiving on the serverside.
so why is it not possible to access multicast packages via eth2.8?
joining works. i can verify arriving packages by
sudo tcpdump -i eth2.8 -n multicast
but it seems simply impossible to access these packages without tcpdump! this exactly describes what i am experiencing, alone the solution is not the same.
here some sysctl parameter:
- net.ipv4.conf.eth2/8.rp_filter = 1
- net.ipv4.conf.eth2/8.mc_forwarding = 1
- net.ipv4.conf.eth2/8.forwarding = 1
there is no difference between sysctl params of eth2.8 and eth0.13.
and yes, this happens even if the firewall is down!
any hint appreciated, you'll make my week!
/markus