On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 4:42 AM, Yoda geek <
address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Everton & Fellow qpimd users,
>
> We're trying to stream multicast video traffic between a Tversity server and
> a multicast client separated by 2 nodes (node1 and node2). Each node is
> running quagga suite (version 0.99.15) along with qpimd (version 0.158)
> running on top of Linux 2.6.26.
> Node 1 has 3 network interfaces - eth0, ap0 and ra_sta0
> Node 2 has 2 network interfaces - ra_sta0 and ra_ap0
> The Tversity server talks to interface ra_ap0 on Node 1 and the multicast
> client talks to interface ra_ap0 on Node 2
> Nodes 1 and 2 talk with each other over their ra_sta0 interfaces
>
> Below is a graphical depiction :
>
> Tversity server -----------ra_ap0--> Node 1
> --ra_sta0-----------------ra_sta0-->Node
> 2-----ra_ap0------------------------> Video Client
> =========== ======================
> ====================== =============
>
>
> Node 1 pimd.conf file
> ==================
> !
> ! Zebra configuration saved from vty
> ! 2009/08/01 20:26:06
> !
> hostname node1
> password zebra
> enable password zebra
> log stdout
> !
> interface eth0
> !
> interface eth1
> !
> interface lo
> !
> interface ra_ap0
> ip pim ssm
> ip igmp
> ip igmp query-interval 125
> ip igmp query-max-response-time-dsec 100
> ip igmp join 239.255.255.250 192.168.4.60
> !
> interface ra_sta0
> ip igmp
> ip igmp query-interval 125
> ip igmp query-max-response-time-dsec 100
> !
> !
> ip multicast-routing
> !
> line vty
> !
>
> Node 2 pimd.conf configuration file
> ============================
> !
> ! Zebra configuration saved from vty
> ! 2009/08/02 21:54:14
> !
> hostname node2
> password zebra
> enable password zebra
> log stdout
> !
> interface eth0
> !
> interface eth1
> !
> interface lo
> !
> interface ra_ap0
> ip igmp
> ip igmp query-interval 125
> ip igmp query-max-response-time-dsec 100
> ip igmp join 239.255.255.250 192.168.4.60
> !
> interface ra_sta0
> ip igmp
> ip igmp query-interval 125
> ip igmp query-max-response-time-dsec 100
> !
> !
> ip multicast-routing
> !
> line vty
> !
>
> From the above configuration you can see that interface ra_ap0 on node 1 is
> configured to be multicast source (ip pim ssm).
> We do see some multicast join requests in wireshark from both the server and
> the client however no data flow. Initially we started qpimd without
> the entry "igmp join ..." on either client side node or server side node.
> Looking at node 1 configuration through "show ip igmp groups" we didn't see
> the group membership for "239.255.255.250" while this group membership was
> observed on node 2. I put this group membership on both nodes to force them
> to join this multicast group - however without success.
>
> Just to give you a background - when both client and server are talking to
> same node - say node 2 and same interface ra_ap0 (without qpimd running)
> multicast video gets served flawlessly from Tversity server to client
> through the node.
> But with the 2 node setup we aren't able to see the video streams go through
> to the client.
>
> Could you please review the above configuration for errors or have any
> suggestions to reseolve this issue ? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
>