I am trying to receive multicast UDP data on a network interface on RHEL 7.2
So, about my setup: NIC: Intel X540 IP: 192.168.42.100 Distro: RHEL 7.2 Multicast Address: 224.5.6.7 Port: 2002 Interface name: ens4f1
I have 2 interfaces open, the 1 Gbit on the Mobo and one of the 10 Gbit on the intel card.
Like many other posts, I have data coming in and visible on both wireshark and tcpdump but my recvfrom call just hangs. My code is a copy of a similar problem described here, which appears to be working for the OP.
Notes:
1) I run my code as root
2) I have tried to change the rp_filter in /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/ens4f1/rp_filter to 0. No change
3) Disabling SELinux did not change anything
4) Wireshark and tcpdump shows the data just fine. Dump shown below
[@localhost ~]$ sudo tcpdump -c 5 -i ens4f1 -v
tcpdump: listening on ens4f1, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 65535 bytes
15:43:57.368470 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 255, id 6526, offset 0, flags [DF], proto UDP (17), length 7996)
192.168.42.44.62111 > 224.5.6.7.globe: UDP, length 7968
15:43:57.368477 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 255, id 6526, offset 0, flags [DF], proto UDP (17), length 316)
192.168.42.44.62111 > 224.5.6.7.globe: UDP, length 288
15:43:57.368869 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 255, id 6526, offset 0, flags [DF], proto UDP (17), length 7996)
192.168.42.44.62111 > 224.5.6.7.globe: UDP, length 7968
15:43:57.368878 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 255, id 6526, offset 0, flags [DF], proto UDP (17), length 316)
192.168.42.44.62111 > 224.5.6.7.globe: UDP, length 288
15:43:57.369264 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 255, id 6526, offset 0, flags [DF], proto UDP (17), length 7996)
192.168.42.44.62111 > 224.5.6.7.globe: UDP, length 7968
5 packets captured
46 packets received by filter
9 packets dropped by kernel
Copy of code
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <netinet/in.h>
#include <arpa/inet.h>
#include <time.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
using namespace std;
#define HELLO_PORT 2002
#define HELLO_GROUP "224.5.6.7"
#define MSGBUFSIZE 10000
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
string source_iface("192.168.42.100");
string group(HELLO_GROUP);
int port(HELLO_PORT);
cout << "group: " << group << " port: " << port << " source_iface: " << source_iface << endl;
int fd;
if ((fd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, 0)) < 0)
{
perror("socket");
exit(1);
}
u_int yes = 1;
if (setsockopt(fd, SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR, &yes, sizeof(yes)) < 0)
{
perror("Reusing ADDR failed");
exit(1);
}
struct sockaddr_in addr;
memset(&addr, 0, sizeof(addr));
addr.sin_family = AF_INET;
addr.sin_port = htons(port);
addr.sin_addr.s_addr = (group.empty() ?
htonl(INADDR_ANY) :
inet_addr(group.c_str()));
if (bind(fd,(struct sockaddr *)&addr, sizeof(addr)) < 0)
{
perror("bind");
exit(1);
}
struct ip_mreq mreq;
mreq.imr_multiaddr.s_addr = inet_addr(group.c_str());
mreq.imr_interface.s_addr = (source_iface.empty() ? htonl(INADDR_ANY) : inet_addr(source_iface.c_str()));
if (setsockopt(fd, IPPROTO_IP, IP_ADD_MEMBERSHIP, &mreq, sizeof(mreq)) < 0)
{
perror("setsockopt");
exit(1);
}
socklen_t addrlen;
int nbytes;
char msgbuf[MSGBUFSIZE];
while (1)
{
memset(&msgbuf, 0, MSGBUFSIZE);
addrlen = sizeof(addr);
if ((nbytes = recvfrom(fd, msgbuf, MSGBUFSIZE, 0, (struct sockaddr *)&addr, &addrlen)) < 0)
{
perror("recvfrom");
exit(1);
}
cout.write(msgbuf, nbytes);
cout.flush();
}
return 0;
}
All help and suggestions are most welcome
Thanks
Henrik
It was an issue with the firewalld in RHEL 7. Creating a rule described here https://access.redhat.com/solutions/1587673 solved it for one interface, but not both. Will repost another question for that if I don't solve it.
EDIT: The culprit for getting both running at the same time was setting the rp_filter value to 2 for all interfaces. Setting it for only 1 does not do anything if the 'all' category is still 1.
net.ipv4.conf.all.rp_filter=2
This can be done by creating a file at /etc/sysctl.d/multicast.conf or using a "sysctl -w" call.