Subject: [pim] question about getting pimd working on my setup for multicast

From: Daniel Cave <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2015 18:55:04 +0100

hi.

I hope you can give me some assistance.. I have a GRE tunnel setup between our vyos router in amazon and our production data centre. The two sites are connected together via a layer2 cross connect & vpn.

as i understand it, AWS do not support multicast within their vpc's (virtual private cloud) so I have setup a GRE tunnel between these two vyos hosts (v.1.1.5) and the guys on the VyOS irc told me i had to setup pima

my setup is here : https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BxSQJGGzGU1BZEZyQTFPY3BBWEU

On the left hand side, we have our production network and a cisco network connecting via a leased/layer2 line and n the right is our AWS setup, I've included the pimd.conf's 

What I am trying to do is do a multicast IGMP join to the amazon side so it connects to the multicast feed  address, using our 'cmetest' app whose output i've included on both sides.

Ive noticed that when i do the tests and use iperf/cmetest i see the multicast routing table on both routers but no traffic on my amazon side.

I know something's not setup correctly  but some advice/guidance on how i make this work and what i need to do would be really helpful

the end goal is to get our windows host on the 10.99.102.84 ip do the multicast join using the 'production' app which connects to multiple multicast addresses.

I intend to blog this setup when i get it working so that everyone can get help 

Thanks in advance

Dan.

Regards

Dan.