It appears that mrouted functionality is broken for x86. Since I only
received one response (and 9 Out of Office AutoReplies), I've included it
in its entirety.
Thanks to Peter Durst from Learnix for taking the time to respond:
> I have been going through an ongoing battle with Sun over the Multi-cast
> issues on the x86 platform. I have told them lots of times that it's
> broken, but alas, they have ignored me. I have noticed that 2.6/7/8 have
> all exhibited this type of problem. I would send a report directly to
Sun
> and see if we can't overwhelm them with "it's broken" statements. Sorry
> that I can't help you.
Also, there was a fairly comprehensive summary in the archives from 1996
about multicasting. It included a number of links, but all of them appear
to have disappeared since then. :( Here is the link to the summary for
those who are interested
http://scorpion.latech.edu/cgi-bin/SFgate?language=English&verbose=0&listenv=DL&application=&convert=Mail&converthl=&refinequery=&formintern=&formextern=&multiple=0&descriptor=scorpion.latech.edu%2fsun-managers-summary%7c677%7c6348%7cRasana%20Atreya%20%3cRasan%20Summary:%20MBONE%20Multicasting%7cTEXT%7cscorpion:210%7c%2finfo%2fwais%2findexes%2fsun-managers-summary%7c365433%20371781%20%2finfo%2fwais%2fdata%2fsun-managers%2f%2fsum.10.96
"Mike van der Velden;" wrote:
> Has anyone got mrouted (version 3.8 from parcftp.xerox.com) to work on
> Solaris x86? We've been running it successfully on an Ultra5 with
> Solaris 2.6 for some time now, but for various reasons we wish to
> transfer this functionality to a Gateway P3 450MHz, running Solaris 2.6
>
> One of our users is trying to make this work on the Intel box, but keeps
> getting errors like:
>
> Apr 26 23:56:33 gw unix: Packet length mismatch: 7168, 28
> Apr 26 23:56:33 gw last message repeated 3 times
> Apr 26 23:56:33 gw unix: Packet length mismatch: 8192, 32
> Apr 26 23:56:33 gw last message repeated 3 times
> Apr 26 23:56:33 gw mrouted[23218]: warning - received packet from
> 192.168.200.10 shorter (28 bytes) than hdr+data length
> (20+4294962203:ec1b)
> Apr 26 23:56:33 gw mrouted[23218]: warning - received packet from
> 192.168.201.1 shorter (28 bytes) than hdr+data length
> (20+4294962203:ec1b)
> Apr 26 23:56:33 gw mrouted[23218]: warning - received packet from
> 192.168.129.1 shorter (28 bytes) than hdr+data length
> (20+4294962203:ec1b)
> Apr 26 23:56:33 gw mrouted[23218]: warning - received packet from
> 192.168.130.1 shorter (28 bytes) than hdr+data length
> (20+4294962203:ec1b)
>
> Any clues?
-- Mike van der Velden email mvanderv@redback.com System Administrator voice (604) 433-0597 x281 Redback Networks pager (604) 975-3929 305 - 8988 Fraserton Court fax (604) 433-0257 Burnaby, BC. Canada
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