(usagi-users 02734) Re: Multicast IPv6 over (proto-41/sit) tunnels

[Stig Venaas <Stig.Venaas@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 09:08:32AM +0200, Pekka Savola wrote:
[...]
> (The tricky part with tunnels is that multicast apps like vic and sdr 
> don't use them by default, but rather pick the lowest-numbered 
> non-loopback device -- and you have to specify the device explicitly 
> with '-x <interface-index>' -parameter.  But as you are sending the 
> traffic based on tcpdump, this should not be a problem in this case.)

For some app that doesn't allow explicit device binding I worked around
it by adding an entry for the relevant multicast address to the routing
table.

Stig