Multicast doesn't seem to be working on RHEL 5.5
- by NullUser
I'm trying to install Oracle Grid Infrastructure on two machines. Their documentation states
You must enable multicasting for the cluster on the IP address subnet ranges 224.0.0.0/24 and 230.0.1.0/24
So I ran:
route add -net 224.0.0.0/24 dev eth2
route add -net 230.0.1.0/24 dev eth2
route -n produces:
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
230.0.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth2
224.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth2
# and others
An ifconfig eth2 shows, among other things, UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST.
However, when I run their multicast test utility, it fails me:
Test for Multicast address 230.0.1.0
Sep 3 19:40:39 | Multicast Failed for eth2 using address 230.0.1.0:42000
Test for Multicast address 224.0.0.251
Sep 3 19:41:10 | Multicast Failed for eth2 using address 224.0.0.251:42001
What am I doing wrong?