Re: [Ganglia-developers] Firewall troubles (multicasting with APF/IPTables)

If you want your routing changes to take affect each time you boot then you can add them to the /etc/sysconfig/static-routes config file (at least for RedHat Linux systems where this file is read by the network init script), which in your case would look something like this: any -net 239.2.11.71 n

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Firewall troubles (multicasting with APF/IPTables)

Dear Jason, The following two commands appear to have fixed it: route add -net 239.2.11.71 netmask 255.255.255.255dev eth1 route add -net 255.255.255.255 netmask 255.255.255.255 dev eth1 However I can

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Firewall troubles (multicasting with APF/IPTables)

If your systems have more than one interface then you probably need to tell gmond which interface to bind to by setting the mcast_if option to eth1 in the gmond.conf file. The exact details will vary depending on which version of ganglia you are using, 2.5.x or 3.0.x. ~Jason On Tue, 2005-09-20

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Firewall troubles (multicasting with APF/IPTables)

Dear All, Thank you for your continued support. The firewall is reporting errors like these: iptables: dropped input: IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:00:e0:81:32:00:1a:08:00 SRC=0.0.0.0 DST= 255.255.255.255 LEN=42 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=1 ID=62540 PR

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Firewall troubles (multicasting with APF/IPTables)

If you think it is the iptables firewall that is causing you your problems then try turning on logging of dropped/rejected packets to help debug your problem: iptables -A INPUT -m limit --limit 3/m -j LOG --log-level info \ --log-prefix "iptables: dropped input: " this rule needs to go before t