Re: mc_forwarding

[Adam NEVERT <adam.nevert@yahoo.com>]

Ok I'll directly see on the website of mrouted to know how to configure it.

But a last question for information, I read on the internet that 
recompiling the kernel with particular options could allow the kernel to 
manage multicast forwarding is it correct ? If it is correct why was it 
decided to not add it to the debian linux kernel ?

> On Sun, 2012-08-05 at 02:40 +0200, Adam NEVERT wrote:
> > I received no anwsers, it was not the appropriate mailing list for my
> > question ?
> debian-user might be appropriate.
>
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I want to enable this option net.ipv4.conf.all.mc_forwarding because
> > > I want to forward wake on lan udp packet to my broadcast address. I
> > > tried :
> > > sysctl -w  net.ipv4.conf.all.mc_forwarding=1
> > > error: permission denied on key 'net.ipv4.conf.all.mc_forwarding'
> > >
> > > Is it possible to achieve what I want ? Other proposals ?
> This sysctl is defined as read-only.  You need to run something like
> mrouted to set up multicast routing.
>
> Ben.