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  • Monday, September 24, 2007 2:36 PMLößlein Thomas Users MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
     
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    Hello,
    I tried to you a reflector service with two interfaces. I want to use both interfaces for conferenceXP clients.

    I tried this, but it does not work:

        <add key="MSR.LST.Reflector.MultipleInterfaceSupport" value="true"/>
        <add key="MSR.LST.Reflector.MulticastInterfaceRouteIndex" value="0x20002"/>
        <add key="MSR.LST.Reflector.MulticastInterfaceIP" value="146.254.213.2"/>
        <add key="MSR.LST.Reflector.UnicastInterfaceIP" value="146.254.213.2"/>

        <add key="MSR.LST.Reflector.MulticastInterfaceRouteIndex" value="0x20004"/>
        <add key="MSR.LST.Reflector.MulticastInterfaceIP" value="10.1.202.222"/>
        <add key="MSR.LST.Reflector.UnicastInterfaceIP" value="10.1.202.222"/>

        <add key="MSR.LST.Reflector.IPv6MulticastInterfaceIP" value="3000::1:212:79ff:fed2:f77"/>
        <add key="MSR.LST.Reflector.IPv6UnicastInterfaceIP" value="3000::2:212:79ff:fed2:f77"/>

    It is possible to use both interfaces at the reflector server for cleints or only one of them

    Routing is enabled on the server

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  • Wednesday, September 26, 2007 6:34 PMFred Videon Users MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
     
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    From a quick look at the Reflector source code I see that you can only specify one IPv4 Multicast Interface, one IPv4 Unicast Interface and one MulticastInterfaceRouteIndex.  It looks like it might possibly work to have clients on both interfaces if you use IPv6 on one of them (but I don't know for sure without trying it).  If you do try that, let us know what you learn.

     

    Cheers, Fred Videon

     

     

     
  • Thursday, September 27, 2007 1:07 AMMichaelWilson Users MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
     
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    You can have the reflector listen and transmit unicast on two interfaces by specifying 0.0.0.0 as the unicast interface. But without altering the reflector code I believe it is not possible to have it the multicast packets transmitted on two interfaces.