Why do network bridges fail to forward multicast traffic?
Issue
- Why do network bridges fail to forward multicast traffic in RHEL 5.9, 6.4.z or 6.5?
- Why do my RHEL5 cluster VMs take around 4 minutes to form a quorate cluster?
- Why does clustered VG created on one node not getting reflected on another node?
- In RHEL KVM guest cluster which uses the host bridge for communication, the nodes are unable to properly communicate over multicast.
- Why does cluster enters into fencing loop ,when heartbeat interface is on bridge network?
- Why clustat shows other node as offline when the heartbeat interface is on bridge network?
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.9.
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.5 or 6.4.z (2.6.32-358.23.1.el6)
- Network bridges.
- Multicast traffic.
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 (with the High Availability and Resilient Storage Add Ons)
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