FreeBSD as multicast router

[Eugene Grosbein]

08.11.2019 19:10, Victor Gamov wrote:

>> I'm not familiar with multicast routing in FreeBSD.
>> Multicast routing has its rules in general, though.
>>
>> For example, Cisco routers never process incoming multicast UDP flows if unicast route
>> to source IP address of UDP packets points to interface that differs from real incoming interface.
>> This is "reverse path filtering" embedded in multicast routing unconditionally.
> 
> Yes, but FreeBSD can ping source and client in my tests (see my new later at this thread with network scheme)

It does not matter if source is reachable with unicasts (ping). "Reverse" unicast routes should match incoming interface for multicast UDP.