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Re: sysctl permission denied on mc_forwarding keys

From	J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.networking
Subject	Re: sysctl permission denied on mc_forwarding keys
Date	2011-09-25 15:03 +0000
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On Saturday, September 24th, 2011 at 16:05:31h -0400, Lew Pitcher wrote:

> IIRC, you /first/ must have a multicast router running, which sets up
> the proper kernel conditions to activate multicast forwarding.

Thank you!  That was the answer to the problem.

Since my original post I have now discovered that the value of
the mc_forwarding key is changed from 0 to 1 when running eg
pimd or xorp so there is no need to even attempt to manually
change it.

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sysctl permission denied on mc_forwarding keys J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2011-09-22 17:53 +0000
  Re: sysctl permission denied on mc_forwarding keys buck <buck@private.mil> - 2011-09-23 17:30 +0000
    Re: sysctl permission denied on mc_forwarding keys J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2011-09-23 23:16 +0000
      Re: sysctl permission denied on mc_forwarding keys Lew Pitcher <lpitcher@teksavvy.com> - 2011-09-23 19:23 -0400
        Re: sysctl permission denied on mc_forwarding keys J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2011-09-24 14:42 +0000
          Re: sysctl permission denied on mc_forwarding keys buck <buck@private.mil> - 2011-09-24 19:29 +0000
            Re: sysctl permission denied on mc_forwarding keys J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2011-09-24 19:57 +0000
              Re: sysctl permission denied on mc_forwarding keys Lew Pitcher <lpitcher@teksavvy.com> - 2011-09-24 16:05 -0400
                Re: sysctl permission denied on mc_forwarding keys J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2011-09-25 15:03 +0000

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