[ofa-general] Multicast Question

Sean Hubbell shubbell at dbresearch.net
Tue Apr 24 11:42:32 PDT 2007


Hal,

  Nice to hear from you again. Currently when I ping the multicast "all" 
address, I do not get a reply. I'll start checking here on my side for 
the problem.

Thanks,

Sean

Hal Rosenstock wrote:
> Hi Sean,
>
> On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 09:49, Sean Hubbell wrote:
>   
>> Hello,
>>
>>   I was wondering if I ping or ibping the 224.0.0.1 address should I be 
>> receiving a list of the nodes that have multicast enabled?
>>     
>
> ibping takes a LID or GUID (and not an IP address) as an argument so
> this is not supported by ibping.
>
> 224.0.0.1 is the all (multicast) hosts on the subnet so I would expect
> only those hosts supporting IPmc to respond and they may indicate some
> other IP interface other than IPoIB.
>
> -- Hal
>
>   
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Sean
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