Re: Beacon v1.0-0 on FreeBSD
Hi, Ras -- The problem you're seeing is that IPv6 isn't supported in the
Beacon yet.
I do have a user-contributed patch for it (Kudos to Mickael Hoerdt for
that...) which I'm planning on incorporating shortly, though.
Mitch
At 11:07 AM 9/2/2004 +0100, you wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I am currently trying to set up Beacon v1.0-0 to run on a few FreeBSD
> machines here, but am having problems when attempting to join to an IPv6
> multicast group. IPv4 works fine.
>
> The code runs fine on other Linux and Solaris machines, but when I try
> to run it on FreeBSD I get the following error:
>
> Getting configuration information from file
> "/home/tester/Beacon-1.0/etc/beacon.conf".
> Opening session on default interface.
> Unable in initialize RTP session for this Beacon at ./beacon line 3327.
>
>
> I have tried both with having it use the default interface, and
> specifying the local IPv6 interface I want it to use. The group I am
> using is an embedded-rp (FF70/16) group, but using a standard FF3::/12
> group gives me the same problems.
>
> Has anyone else seen this or know why this might be happening?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Ras
>
>
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