problem receiving multicast stream

[mar1r]

Hi everyone,

I have a weird behavior on my fedora 8 distrib with VLC 0.8.6e. When I tune to udp://@239.255.255.249:45000, i don't receive anything. When i start capturing from eth1 with wireshark, VLC miraculously start showing the video. When i close wireshark, no more video...

The kernel is compiled with multicasting and there i ran

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route add -net 224.0.0.0 netmask 240.0.0.0 dev eth1

from a terminal as root.

What could it be?

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Your network card drivers are buggy, if you need to put the card in promiscuous mode to receive multicast.