jails and multicast traffic

joerg at britannica.bec.de joerg at britannica.bec.de
Mon Jan 30 06:49:09 PST 2006


On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 03:39:24PM +0100, Tomaž Borštnar wrote:
> joerg at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx pravi:
> >On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 12:45:50AM +0100, Tomaž Borštnar wrote:
> >>	Jails do not receive multicast traffic, right?
> >
> >nor do they see broadcasts by default either. I'm using Samba in a jail
> >and to allow PDC operation I have a dup-to rule to reflect the broadcast
> >traffic to the jail ip. 
> Use WINS. It keeps the traffic down. WINS and jails work fine :)

Read again. I want to setup a PDC. It does *not* work with WINS along. I
have a WINS running as well, that's not the issue.

> >You might want to try something similiar for
> >multicast traffic.
> 
> I am not sure whether multicast traffic from jail goes outside to physical 
> network at all. If it does not then no luck. It surely does not help when 
> all jails are on the same machine.

/me has to reread APU to decide on that.

Joerg





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