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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: "Michel Wilson" <mwilson@dds.nl>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Multicast and IP-conntrack problem
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 20:58:07 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m14gkoB-001PKiC@mozart> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 22 Mar 2001 23:36:02 BST." <NEBBLEJBILPLHPBNEEHIEEMCCAAA.mwilson@dds.nl>

In message <NEBBLEJBILPLHPBNEEHIEEMCCAAA.mwilson@dds.nl> you write:
> Hi!
> 
> I'm having some problems with ip-connection tracking and multicast packets:
> the conntrack stuff doesn't seem to be able to handle multicast packets,
> flooding my logs with messages like these:
> 
> Feb 28 15:53:00 procyon kernel: NAT: 0 dropping untracked packet c7105b00 1
> 195.38.203.147 -> 224.0.0.2

Yes.  Connection tracking doesn't handle multicast.  NAT drops packets
not handled by connection tracking.

Making connection tracking handle multicast is a minor project in itself.

Rusty.
--
Premature optmztion is rt of all evl. --DK

      reply	other threads:[~2001-03-29 15:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-03-22 22:36 Michel Wilson
2001-03-24  9:58 ` Rusty Russell [this message]

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