Installing and Administering Internet Services

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Conﬁguring mrouted

Verifying mrouted Operation

You can use one or more of the following methods to verify that mrouted

is operating:

• Retrieve the Virtual Interface Table and the Multicast Routing

Table to see if the correct virtual interfaces (vifs) are conﬁgured.

Refer to “Displaying mrouted Routing Tables” on page 401 for

information on retrieving these tables.

• Retrieve the Routing Cache Table to see if the routing and cache

information is appropriate for your conﬁguration of mrouted. Refer to

“Displaying mrouted Routing Tables” on page 401 for information on

retrieving this table.

• Look at the syslog ﬁle /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log and check for

warning and error messages that indicate the status of mrouted.

When mrouted starts, it logs a startup message that indicates the

mrouted version number, such as “mrouted version 3.8”.

• Issue the HP-UX ps (process status) command and search, using

grep, for the string “mrouted” to determine if the mrouted program is

running, as follows:

ps -ef | grep mrouted