Multicast Problem

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hello,

first of all I would like to apologize for my English.
The second apology for the fact that I may be posting in the wrong category.

But now to my question.
I have a Debian server which acts as a bridge in my network. unicast communication works without problems.
now i wanted to do a small audio streaming test and configured igmp snooping and a querier on my switch, which is in the ZT LAN directly connected to the bridge.
now I would like to provide a multicast stream from my ZT Lan (behind the bridge) in the network. but unfortunately it does not arrive.

so I tried to make a small test with iperf.
if i now
iperf -s -u -B 225.1.2.3% -i 1 on the sender side (from my ZT LAN behind the ZT Birdge), data is happily sent, but on my client (linux pc) i can join the group but get no data packets.
am i doing something wrong, do i need to create special network rules or maybe even change the local.conf on the bridg and the client?

EDIT: one more infomration, inside my ZT LAN (Behind the ZT Brigde) it is working of course!

I appreciate any advice
greetings marco

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hello,
there was an issue with multicast on 1.8.1. Is that the version you are on? There should be zerotier updates available if so.

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running on both ends version 1.8.2…
is there any special rule to allow brodcast and mcast traffice?

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ok!
solved by myself, thanks anyway! :smiley:

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Great! How did you do it?

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for whatever reason, a static route of the mcast group address to the dev zt interface solved it.
i guess the join and leave requests don’t reach the querier and therefore the switch doesn’t forward anything- even if the mcast group and the trafic should be omnipresent, because the connection from my switch over the zt bridge is like a trunk into the zt netwezrk, right?
is zerotier not a real VXLAN?
do you have experience with igmp snooping and joins and leaves?
would be interesting to know?

7

Thanks.
It’s supposed to Just Work. It did in the past. We’ll figure it out in the next release.

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hey travis,

thanks a lot!

9

Hello.

Is this resolved in 1.8.3?

Thanks!

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Hello,
1.8.3 sets the multicast flag now, but there are still reports of multicast not working which we are looking in to.

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I’m testing with avahi-daemon and avahi-browse 1.8.3 and it seems to work.
If anyone has an example that was working on 1.6 and isn’t on 1.8 let us know!

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hello gentlemen,

I will test the version tomorrow and report.

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Travis,

have you used dnssd or plain mdns in your avahi config?

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Not sure. I just used the defaults and set publish-workstation=yes

publish-workstation= Takes a boolean value (“yes” or “no”). If set to “yes” avahi-daemon will register a service of type
“_workstation._tcp” on the local LAN. This might be useful for administrative purposes (i.e. browse for all PCs on the LAN),
but is not required or recommended by any specification. Newer MacOS X releases register a service of this type. Defaults to
“no”.

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