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Hi, I got a problem similar to this one (http://mailman.ds9a.nl/pipermail/lartc/2005q4/017614.html), GRE tunnel can forward normal IP packets such as ICMP but failed to tunnel multicast traffics. Here''s the setup: 192.168.20.0/24 LAN-A--------------RtrA-------------RtrB--------------LAN-B 192.168.50.0/24 192.168.60.0/24 RtrA

Would it be extremely difficult to do multicast over tinc? How about reliable multicast over tinc? This would be more traffic than multicast dns, but not _necessarily_ a great deal more. It would be for syncing some information among freeipa domain controllers. Would the tinc nodes need to be in all in switch or maybe even hub mode? EthernetOverIP over tinc?

Hello list, Using Samba-3.0.21c (with these USE flags: cups doc postgres python xml xml2) as a standalone server on Gentoo Linux in a small LAN. I noticed the following: when using mutlicast DNS (mdns, for example to make use of zeroconf [1] in a network with Macs and Linux and Windows machines) with a resolver like Apple's mDNSResponder, avahi [3] or a client like nss-mdns [2] one has to have an mdns entry in /etc/nsswitch.conf like this: hosts: files mdns dns or hosts: f...