- Introduction
- Build & Install
- Building from GIT
- Running
- Configuration
- Contributing
- Origin & References
mrouted is the original implementation of the DVMRP multicast routing protocol, RFC 1075.
mrouted is simple to use. DVMRP is derived from RIP, which means it works stand-alone without any extra network setup required. You can get up and running in a matter of minutes. Use the built-in IP-in-IP tunneling support, or GRE, to traverse Internet or intranets.
mrouted is developed on Linux and works as-is out of the box. Other UNIX variants should also work, but are not as thoroughly tested.
Manual pages available here:
mrouted does not require a .conf file. When it starts up it probes
all available interfaces and, after an initial 10s delay, starts peering
with any DVMRP capable neighbors.
Use mgen(1) or
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mcjoin(1) to send IGMP join packets on the LAN to
start testing multicast routing. Use the mroutectl tool to query a
running mrouted for status.
For the native mrouted tunnel to work in Linux based systems, you need to have the "ipip" kernel module loaded or as built-in:
modprobe ipip
Alternatively, you may of course also set up GRE tunnels between your multicast capable routers.
Note: mrouted must run with suffient capabilities, or as root.
mrouted reads its configuration file from /etc/mrouted.conf, if it
exists. You can override the default by specifying an alternate file
when invoking mrouted:
mrouted -f /path/file.conf
mrouted can be reconfigured at runtime like any regular UNIX daemon with
SIGHUP, or mroutectl restart, to activate changes made to its
configuration file. The PID is saved in the file /run/mrouted.pid for
your scripting needs.
By default, mrouted configures itself to act as a multicast router on all multicast capable interfaces. Hence, you do not need to explicitly configure it, unless you need to setup tunnel links, change the default operating parameters, disable multicast routing over a specific physical interfaces, or have dynamic interfaces.
For more help, see the mrouted(8) man page.
The configure script and Makefile supports de facto standard settings
and environment variables such as --prefix=PATH and DESTDIR= for the
install process. For example, to install mrouted to /usr, instead of
the default /usr/local, and redirect install to a package directory in
/tmp:
./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var
make
make DESTDIR=/tmp/mrouted-4.0-1 install-strip
This version of mrouted has RSRR support for running RSVP, disabled
by default. Enable with configure --enable-rsrr.
If you want to contribute, or simply just try out the latest but unreleased features, then you need to know a few things about the GNU build system:
configure.acand a per-directoryMakefile.amare key filesconfigureandMakefile.inare generated fromautogen.shMakefileis generated byconfigurescript
To build from GIT you first need to clone the repository and run the
autogen.sh script. This requires automake and autoconf to be
installed on your system.
git clone https://github.com/troglobit/mrouted.git
cd mrouted/
./autogen.sh
./configure && make
GIT sources are a moving target and are not recommended for production systems, unless you know what you are doing!
The basic functionality has been tested thoroughly over the years, but that does not mean mrouted is bug free. Please report bugs, feature requests, patches and pull requests at GitHub.
The mrouted routing daemon was developed by David Waitzman, Craig Partridge, Steve Deering, Ajit Thyagarajan, Bill Fenner, David Thaler and Daniel Zappala. With contributions by many others.
The last release by Mr. Fenner was 3.9-beta3 on April 26 1999 and mrouted has been in "beta" status since then. Several prominent UNIX operating systems, such as AIX, Solaris, HP-UX, BSD/OS, NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD as well as most GNU/Linux based distributions have used that beta as a de facto stable release, with (mostly) minor patches for system adaptations. Over time however many dropped support, but Debian and OpenBSD kept it under their wings.
In March 2003 OpenBSD, led by the fearless Theo de Raadt, managed to convince Stanford to release mrouted under a fully free license, the 3-clause BSD license. Unfortunately, and despite the license issue being corrected by OpenBSD, in February 2005 Debian dropped mrouted as an "obsolete protocol".
For a long time the OpenBSD team remained the sole guardian of this project. In 2010 Joachim Nilsson revived mrouted on GitHub.