Questions tagged [multicast]
In computer networking, multicast is the delivery of a message or information to a group of destination computers simultaneously in a single transmission from the source. Copies are automatically created in other network elements, such as routers, but only when the topology of the network requires it.
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Multicast client keeps leaving group every 5 seconds
I have 2 HP DL360P Gen10 with a Windows 10 VM (IP 10.10.1.1) inside it. It is trying to join a multicast group (228.40.0.227). However, based on the wireshark capture (image below), this client is ...
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Casting videos from one PC to multiple displays over an Ethernet Network
have a set of 6 television displays spread over 3 floors and a central personal computer at one of these floors. There exists an Ethernet cat6 cable network in the building with ports at the location ...
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Linux bridge does not propagate multicast ntp messages
My hardware, based on imx8, has two ethernet interfaces. These are connected together as a bridge, all messages not for this he are forwarded. Everything works as expected except multicast messages: ...
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Use container hostname resolution with network=host
I have two docker container.
One is the "backend", the other "connector"..
The connector needs to have its network type set to "host" (To receive udp multicast: ssdp/mdns ...
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What are the downsides of using IPv6 Multicast for majority of all communication including one-to-one?
Given IPv6 Multicast allows for a sub-pub communication model, it seems like a no-brainer for the vast majority of communication, but its very rarely used beyond video streaming, and I'd like to know ...
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Is there a way to add multicast to loopback interface on a kubernetes pod?
Using an in-prem kubernetes installation on baremetal (Ubuntu) servers, installed with kubeadm.
Kubernetes version is 1.25.3
Need to have multicast on a pod's loopback for the automated tests running, ...
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Multicast between kubernetes pods
I have an app in which there are a few tasks that communicate using publisher/subscriber. The main problem is that the pub/sub discovery works by multicasting information to the other tasks, but when ...
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Dynamic multicast in AWS not working using IGMPv2
I have a java application running on tomcat on multiple ec2 instances, and I want to deploy it in cluster mode which is working when I configure in each tomcat server a StaticMembershipInterceptor for ...
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Multicast resolution overrides hosts file on Windows 10
I have a Windows application that publishes itself with a DNS multicast record.
Let's say myapp.local.
When it is installed, it stores a record in hosts file under systemroot/drivers/etc folder.
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How do multicast addresses on the public internet resolve
A service we use is asking us to whitelist the IP 255.0.0.1 in order for us to use them. I understand this is a limit broadcast address and falls under the category of multicast addresses.
How do I ...
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Multicast packets never received by socat
I have three machines running Manjaro, two work just fine, but the third (a Raspberry Pi) seems to not pass multicast packets to the registering application.
This is similar to this question.
On the ...
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CARP getting confused with 2 interconnected switches and bonding
I'm having a pretty straight forward 10G switch setup:
+-----+----+ +-----+----+
| |port2 ISL port2| |
| switch A +--------------------------+ ...
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I want to test IGMP capability of a OpenWRT based router. How caan i test?
This is what I want to test out,
SEE IMAGE: Router connected to users and is accessible over the internet as well
PC1 and PC2 should be able to join some group(s).
Should be able to leave group as ...
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802.1q multicast blocked by Cisco router
We are using Cisco Catalyst 1000 switch (C100-16P-2G-L to be precise) and having a trouble of passing tagged multicast from one its port to another.
We would like to pass it as it is (tagged), I ...
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Does Windows automatically leave unused multicast groups?
When troubleshooting multicast, I found no reference on the meaning of the fields returned by this command:
C:\Users\Administrator>netsh int ip show joins level=verbose
Interface 5: Ethernet0
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up directive not working when dhcp is selected in /etc/network/interfaces.d/eth0
I have to add the multicast route, that is needed when no default gateway is configured. Mono needs this in order to join multicast groups. The configuring is done in /etc/network/interfaces.d/eth0
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IGMP v3 JOIN sent but no traffic from switch
I'm trying to join an IGMP multicast stream from a Centos 8 machine but after sending a JOIN, there is no traffic coming from the switch.
Simple connection:
MUX <-----------> cisco3850 <------...
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route packets from specific hosts to virtual device
PIMv2 I think the issue is with multicast.
I want to create a GRE tunnel that supports multicast PIMv2. I am seeing the server sending PIMv2 Hello messages to my gre tunnel but my machine is not ...
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How to configure bird OSPF for ipip link?
I have a simple ipip tunnel between 192.168.56.254/31 and 192.168.56.255/31.
My simple test config on 192.168.56.254/31 looks like:
protocol ospf test
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import none;
export none;
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Cannot receive multicast frames
I'm bringing up a new machine and it cannot receive multicast frames for some reason.
Everything else about the network seems to work fine.
Even multicast frame seems to get out fine because I can ...
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WCF Discovery on Windows Server 2019 getting ICMP Typ 3 Code 3
The problem: I've installed Windows Server 2019 and I am trying to discover my WCF services running on a Windows Server 2012R2. But that's not working and in Wireshark I see a ICMP Destination ...
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Which VLANs need IGMP snooping?
My approximate understanding is that switches and similar L2 devices employ IGMP snooping to prevent multicast "streams" from propagating out of ports that have no multicast clients ...
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Forward multicast and broadcast packets over subnets
I am trying to receive packets from the local network, including specifically broadcast and multicast on device B, which is connected to the local network though device A which is acting as a router ...
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Using multicast DNS to broadcast name of my machine like raspberrpi does
Raspberry pi has a feature where when it's connected to a LAN, you can find its IP using raspberrypi.local (source). It mentions multicast DNS.
I'd like to do this for my own linux devices on LAN, ...
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How to make reverse mDNS through IPv6 on OSX?
I am looking for a way to make reverse mDNS query on OSX over IPv6 only.
I am not interested by solution using IPv4.
The following works on Linux with dig 9.16.1:
dig +short @ff02::fb -p 5353 -x 2001:...
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Why 224.0.0.1 traffic is filtered by Linux hosts?
When sending an ICMPv4 echo request to a destination address like 224.0.0.1, it is ignored by Linux hosts receiving the request. The destination MAC address used is 01:00:5e:00:00:01.
The only way to ...
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How to disable / remove multicast completely?
On one of my Windows Servers (Windows Server Standard 2019), I'd like to remove multicast handling completely. Completely really means completely - completely ignore incoming multicast traffic, and ...
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Multicast not working on macvtap device
I have a problem with my virtual network and IPv6 network discovery (multicast traffic).
(The setup might seem a little bit involved and I don't remember the exact reasons for every design decision. ...
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Router using smcroute stops routing multicast after some time
I have a problem with multicast routing on a "from scratch" (Debian, not LFS ;)) linux router/firewall. At home I've set up a user and a server net. Between the two is a router/firewall (...
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High CPU usage on Cisco WS-4900M by multicast(PIM-SM)
Good evening
I have a network with few Cisco routers (WS-4900M and 7606(as main core)) on backbone network and different connected to them l3 switches as client access routers, which receives igmp ...
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Ubuntu transmits TTL 0 multicast packets
IP packets with TTL 0 shall not leave host.
But when I start application which multicasts UDP packets with TTL 0, I see packets with TTL 0 leaving host for few seconds, and coming to normal behavior ...
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Add/Remove altnet directives to pimd at runtime?
Our network supports many multicast streams using pimd. Many (but not all) of those multicast streams only flow if we use the "altnet multicast_source_ip masklen 24" statement in the phyint section ...
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multicast on windows 10
I have implemented an app in Android which communicates with another Windows app using multicast.
It is working properly on most Windows 10 machines, but on some others the app won't receive ...
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Cannot Create QEMU Socket Networking in Windows Host using Multicast Fails with Unknown Error
I am trying to create a simulated VLAN using socket networking, and the only way to connect multiple VMs in one network in QEMU using socket networking is by using the multicast mcast option of the ...
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Why don't GCP, AWS or Azure support IGMP multicast/broadcast? [closed]
It's well known that GCP/AWS/Azure do not support IGMP multicast or broadcast. Some state it's because of security concerns, but don't mention what those concerns are.
Is there a reason why these ...
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Use interface IP address for response to incoming multicast packet
I have a multicast routing setup with forwarding on the receiving side, as follows (all Linux):
+----------------+ +----------------+ +-------------+
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Set up multicast route across a middle hop
I have a host with two Docker containers (with NET_ADMIN capability):
backend with an interface eth0 (172.16.7.3)
openvpn-server with interfaces eth0 (172.16.7.2) and tun0 (10.8.0.1), running an ...
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How can I make my libvirt/KVM guest see all IPv4/UDP multicast traffic?
I have an issue with IPv4/UDP multicast traffic not being fully visible from within a KVM guest.
The guest has a dedicated NIC which is attached using MacVTap. Both the host OS and the OS in the ...
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How can I see multicast traffic from the same host?
On Fedora 30, I'm trying to see multicast packets in another process on the same host. Using netstat, iperf, and tcpdump, I've verified that the group is joined and packets are sent to the multicast ...
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How can I forward port from two multicast addreses with the same port using iptables on debian?
I wrote a multithread program in Python, that analyses traffic from two multicast addresses with the same port, however it looks like my threads don't distinguish from where are datagram's coming.
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MDNS response “storm” with “localhost_prl: 127.0.0.1”
We are experiencing occasional performance problems in our WIFI. With Wireshark I see a high number (currently 50/s) of MDNS responses for localhost_prl:127.0.0.1.
I don't think that this is normal. ...
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Can a linux client in a multicast network get to know the source ip?
Supose I'm added as a client in a small multicast network with L2 switches and one unique router that is the LHR that uses IGMPv2. Can I (legally if possible) forward some signal that will give me the ...
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Multicast not reaching application layer - Windows 10
I have a python application that receives multicast packets from one of the ethernet ports set to a static ip on a windows machine. The other ethernet port is a usb-eth dongle configured for another ...
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"Cannot set device ring parameters: Operation not supported"
I'm trying to change the RX and TX for an HP BL460C server by using ethtool and get the following:
ethtool -G eth0 rx 4078 tx 4078
Cannot set device ring parameters: Operation not supported
My ...
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multicast routing between vlan
I am trying to create a multicast messaging service between vlans. When both multicast client and server are in same vlan, the client receives the packet without any issues. When client and server in ...
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multicast traffic across vlan
Suppose I have a layer 2 managed switch which can be programmed to have multiple VLANs. Lets say there are 2 configured VLANs as of now vlan-1 and vlan-2. I also have a linux machine with 2 ethernet ...
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Multicast for Tomcat servers on Google Cloud
Google Cloud VPC networks only support IPv4 unicast traffic [1], they do not support broadcast, multicast or IPv6 traffic within the network. I have several tomcat servers and I'd like to group them ...
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Multicast communication betwen two subnets connected to one switch
Computers A and and B are connected to the same switch. A is in subnet 192.168.1.0/24, B in 192.168.2.0/24, so they cannot communicate directly using unicast. But what about multicast communication? ...
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Change network interface for multicast subscription
My laptop has 2 network interfaces: ethernet (eno1, 600 Metric) and wireless (wlo1, 1000 Metric)
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
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cisco 4948 IGMP flooding on all ports
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Having trouble with multicast on cisco WS-C4948-10GE (MPC8540).
I have two switches running:
System image file is "bootflash:cat4000-i5k91s-mz.122-25.EWA9.bin"
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