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Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 15:32:31 +0530
From: Srinidhi Gopal <srinidhigopal@gmail.com>
Subject: [users:01209] Reg Multicast Routing support in IPv6 Ready - Core Logo Phase 2
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Hi,

I have a query on testing multicast routing as a part of IPv6 Phase-2
Conformance Testing.

Our target router has linux 2.6 kernel running on it. The mcast-tools
application suggested in Tahi site
(mcast-tools-20061214<http://www.tahi.org/logo/phase2-core/result/Self_Test_4-0-3/freebsd71.router/>)
is build for FreeBSD and not Linux.

I found a multicast application, mrd6-0.9.6.tar.gz for Linux and I built the
same for our target. Also I applied the following kernel patch "*patch*-*
linux2*.*6.9*-*ipv6*-*mforwarding*-0.1d" to our kernel.

Now the Multicast testcases are passing. But I observe that the mrd package
does the entire multicast routing in the user space. The Kernel stack is
used only for socket operations and the control never flows into
ip6_mr_forward function in the kernel for mcast operations. The idea behind
IPv6 Ready logo is to test the kernel IPv6 stack of the target. So I am not
sure if I can submit the results obtained using this tool.

Has anyone executed the multicast routing conformance test cases on routers
with 2.6 kernel?  If so, Kindly let me know which multicast package to use ?

Kindly Clarify.

Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Srinidhi Gopal

	

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