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From: fenner@parc.xerox.com (Bill Fenner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Mrouted
Date: 2 Aug 1996 22:25:37 GMT
Organization: Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
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In article <Pine.3.91.960721170621.1932B-100000@fog.cs.odu.edu>,
Jamie Bowden  <bowden@cs.odu.edu> wrote:
>I have a mbone tunnel to my home machine via ppp link, and am getting 
>errors I don't know what to do with.

What version of FreeBSD are you running?

If you actually have a tunnel, as opposed to having multicast enabled
on the other end of your ppp link, then you should put:

phyint ppp0 disable
tunnel ppp0 tun.nel.end.point metric 1 threshold 16

in your /etc/mrouted.conf, coordinating the metric & threshold with the
other end of the tunnel.

If you have multicast enabled on the other end of the ppp link,
there was a problem with ppp links and native multicast which should
be resolved in FreeBSD 2.1.5 , so you should upgrade to that.  Also,
you should set the netmask of your ppp interface properly.

  Bill