Multicast between wirless clients on same AP and Mobility Group

martin.chapman44 · ‎05-09-2008

We have a autonomous wireless setup with a WLSM and WLSE. I have an issue with where I have 2 wirless clients that need to communicate using a multicast address for an application to work.

The clients can ping each other but the multicast stream is not working between the clients. The SSID is part of a mobility group that sits on a Cat 6509 sup720.

A debug on the sup720 shows the upstream multicast from one of the clients but you see no activity downstream to the other client.

Tunnel multicast stats: -

Tunnel176 is up, line protocol is up

Internet address is 53.32.176.33/27

Multicast routing: enabled

Multicast switching: fast

Multicast packets in/out: 2619/0

Multicast boundary: not set

Multicast TTL threshold: 0

Multicast Tagswitching: disabled

Sup 720 Debug: -

May 9 15:15:31: IGMP(0): Send v2 Report for 224.0.1.40 on Tunnel176

May 9 15:15:31: IGMP(0): Received v2 Report on Tunnel176 from 53.32.176.33 for 224.0.1.40

May 9 15:15:31: IGMP(0): Received Group record for group 224.0.1.40, mode 2 from 53.32.176.33 for 0 sources

May 9 15:15:31: IGMP(0): Updating EXCLUDE group timer for 224.0.1.40

May 9 15:15:31: IGMP(0): MRT Add/Update Tunnel176 for (*,224.0.1.40) by 0

May 9 15:16:15: IP(0): s=53.32.176.40 (Tunnel176) d=225.0.0.38 id=11765, prot=17, len=68(54), mroute olist null

May 9 15:16:15: IP(0): s=53.32.176.40 (Tunnel176) d=225.0.0.37 id=11766, prot=17, len=68(54), mroute olist null

May 9 15:16:25: IGMP(0): Send v2 general Query on Tunnel176

May 9 15:16:25: IGMP(0): Set report delay time to 0.9 seconds for 224.0.1.40 on Tunnel176

Please help as I need to get the 2 clients communicating using the multicast stream.

Thanks

Martin

ericgarnel · ‎05-13-2008

Are you able to change the multicast address?

I saw a similar issue with the bonjour app for macs, I changed the address to 239.0.1.100 instead of a 224.x.x.x address and that fixed it.

martin.chapman44 · ‎05-13-2008

I'm unable to change the address used as it's encoded in the application and is installed on highly secured unit that has no administration account.

It's a hardware PC that is used for car diagnostics.

gnijs · ‎01-30-2009

Have you enabled multicast mode on the controller ?

If so, in what mode ? Unicast or multicast ?

If you selected multicast mode, do you see the controller joining the original stream and sending it to the LWAPP distribution group to the other APs ?