Bit Mojo - Hiram Chirino » mutlticast http://hiramchirino.com/blog My Ramblings on Hawt Tech Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:25:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Mulitcast not working on a Linux box? http://hiramchirino.com/blog/2008/04/mulitcast-not-working-on-a-linux-box/ http://hiramchirino.com/blog/2008/04/mulitcast-not-working-on-a-linux-box/#comments Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:59:00 +0000 Hiram Chirino http://hiramchirino.com/wordpress/2008/04/mulitcast-not-working-on-a-linux-box/ Just ran into a problem where some mutlicast tests were failing on a linux box and I could not figure out why. Did a little bit of research and found out that you may need to add a route for it first. So if you have this problem try running:
route add 224.0.0.0 netmask 240.0.0.0 dev eth0

or if you have an older version of linux like me:

route add -net 224.0.0.0 netmask 240.0.0.0 dev eth0

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