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Re: D-Link DFE580-TX (ste*) woes



* Arvid Grøtting <arvidg@netfonds.no> [020430 04:25]:
> After installing gated and zebra (to try both) however, it soon became
> clear that something wasn't right.  Investigation with tcpdump soon
> indicated that unless I put the interfaces in promiscuous mode, they
> just didn't see the OSPF multicast packets the software thought it had
> subscribed to.  (The packets were visible elsewhere on the same LAN,
> and they were visible when promiscuous mode was switched on.)

Did you define multicast_host in /etc/rc.conf?  By default, a route is
added to reject all multicast packets. (224.0.0.0/4)  I have used zebra
OSPF with fxp NICs in the past and it has worked.

David