NAME
dvmrpd —
Distance Vector Multicast Routing
Protocol (DVMRP) daemon
SYNOPSIS
dvmrpd |
[-dnv] [-f
file] |
DESCRIPTION
dvmrpd is the Distance Vector Multicast
Routing Protocol (DVMRP) daemon, which manages multicast routing tables.
This implementation supports DVMRP version 3.255, thus it is only capable of
maintaining IPv4 multicast routing tables.
DVMRP uses a distance vector routing algorithm to build reverse path multicast delivery trees. A flood and prune approach is used to determine which branches in the network have multicast listeners. The usual drawbacks of a distance vector route protocol applies to DVMRP: slow convergence and scalability issues.
DVMRP routers communicate via the multicast group 224.0.0.4 All DVMRP Routers. IP protocol number 2 (IGMP) is used, furthermore DVMRP packets omit the use of TCP and UDP.
It is possible to interconnect multicast networks with the use of
tunnels. Tunnels can traverse routers and networks not supporting multicast.
dvmrpd does not support tunneling as described in
RFC 1075, since it has been abandoned. dvmrpd can
tunnel multicast traffic using generic solutions such as
gre(4).
DVMRP is used for handling multicast routing exclusively. It is not required that a unicast routing protocol is used in conjunction with DVMRP.
To have dvmrpd enabled at boot time, use
“rcctl enable dvmrpd”, which sets
dvmrpd_flags=""in rc.conf.local(8).
A running dvmrpd can be controlled with
the dvmrpctl(8) utility.
The options are as follows:
-d- Do not daemonize. If this option is specified,
dvmrpdwill run in the foreground and log to stderr. -ffile- Specify an alternative configuration file.
-n- Configtest mode. Only check the configuration file for validity.
-v- Produce more verbose output.
FILES
- /etc/dvmrpd.conf
- Default
dvmrpdconfiguration file. - /var/run/dvmrpd.sock
- UNIX-domain socket used for communication with dvmrpctl(8).
SEE ALSO
STANDARDS
DVMRP Version 3, draft-ietf-idmr-dvmrp-v3-11, August 2000.
HISTORY
The dvmrpd program first appeared in
OpenBSD 4.0.