Subject: Re: Is Solaris 2.8 kernel PIM capable?

From: Shishir Jain <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 17:19:28 +0530

Hello Sangeeta:

We just got Solaris 2.8 for Sparc. We tried running PIM on it, but faced
following 2 problems:

1. On receiving a data packet, for which there is no entry in multicast
cache,  No cache message is generated, an entry in multicast cache is
created by PIM, with Oif as Reg Vif, but on receiving a second multicast
data packet on which kernel should generate Whole packet, but it panics
here with following message:

"Apr 11 16:28:16 athena savecore: [ID 570001 auth.error] reboot after
panic: BAD TRAP: type=31 rp=2a10060adc0 addr=0 mmu_fsr=0 occurred in
module "ip" due to a NULL pointer dereference"

2. On receiving a data packet on an Oif, kernel should generate Wrong
Vif message, which it never generates.

Is this some problem with kernel? Has anyone else run or tested PIM-SM
on Solaris 2.8

Please do let us know at the earliest. 

Thanks & Regards

Shishir Jain

"sangeeta.mukherjee" wrote:
> 
> Solaris 8 FCS is PIM capable. THe necessary defines are in
> netinet/pim.h
> 
> However Solaris 8 FCS does not include the PIM daemon. Please
> obtain it from  ISI' PIM website.
> 
> Sangeeta
> 
> >
> > Hello David,
> >
> > We just got Solaris 2.8 Early Access for Sparc. At first look at the
> > header file ip_mroute.h, it seems no new changes have been done to
> > support PIM.
> >
> > Is there a separate patch for PIM for Solaris 2.8 or is it planned to be
> > released later? Please do let me know its current status of
> > availability.
> >
> > Thanks & Regards
> >
> > Shishir
> >
> > David Comay wrote:
> > >
> > > Solaris 2.6 and its kernel are not currently able to support PIM.
> > > However, Solaris 8 will have kernel support and you should be able to
> > > run the standalone daemons referenced off
> > >
> > >         http://catarina.usc.edu/pim/
> > >
> > > under Solaris 8 which is available via early access from
> > >
> > >         http://www.sun.com/developers/tools/solaris/
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > dsc
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Shishir Jain wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Hello!
> > > >
> > > > We are looking at implementing PIM-SM protocol on Solaris 2.6 sparc.
> > > >
> > > > The question I have is:
> > > >
> > > > Is Solaris 2.6 kernel completely capable to support PIM and has all the
> > > > required interfaces? I was looking at pimd implementation publicly
> > > > available and found few differences in netinet/ip_mroute.h and here are
> > > > few differences like:
> > > >
> > > > - VIFF_REGISTER flag for vif structure is not defined on Solaris 2.6
> > > > - IGMPMSG_WHOLEPKT is not defined on Solaris 2.6
> > > >
> > > > Can these things be accomplished other ways, or, some patches are
> > > > available for PIM support somewhere for Solaris 2.6?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks in advance for the help.
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > >
> > > > Shishir
> > > > --
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> > > >
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