General Questions

Howdy Folks,

I have a device on one VLAN that's trying to reach another via a multicast. However, I'm not seeing any way to forward or route these multicasts to other VLANs on my network. In fact, my firewall seems to be blocking them, despite adding rules directly to the contrary (specifically permitting the multicast traffic as well as permitting anything from the originating host).

I want to avoid moving the "target" device to the same VLAN as the multicasting device, or vice-versa, which I realize will solve this problem. I also wish to keep the two in separate subnets, so I don't consider merging the two a viable option. I see that Windows Server 2003 has some multicast forwarding options but my 2003 server happens to be the "target" device in this situation.

Is there any way to accomplish this via M0n0wall? Google seems to turn up a whole lot of nothing on this. I'm running version 1.32. Thanks for the assistance!

Multicast is blocked with the built in rules, nothing you can do about this yet.

I did make a multicast build of 1.31, but got no feedback so didn't commit the changes, you can find it here

http://m0n0mods.googlecode.com/files/generic-pc-1.31-mcast.img