Two private IP’s not responding each other in Multicasting – Linux

Will fix Two private IP’s not responding each other in Multicasting – Linux issue in this post

Follow the below steps to fix Two private IP’s not responding each other in Multicasting – Linux:

1) Ping the private IP of node2 from node1
ping <PRV_IP_Node2>
2) Check whether the priv IP is added in /etc/hosts
cat /etc/hosts
3) Check whether the configuration is correct for the NIC device
cat etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth?
4) Check whether the routing is correct
route -n; netstat -nr
5) traceroute to the priv IP
traceroute <PRV_IP_Node2>
6) Check whether any Firewall is running
/etc/init.d/iptables status
7) Add routing for the host of PRIV_IP_Node2 & check response
8) Check the kernel parameter value of net.ipv4.conf.default.rp_filter
If it is 1 change it to 2
#net.ipv4.conf.default.rp_filter = 1
net.ipv4.conf.default.rp_filter = 2
net.ipv4.conf.all.rp_filter = 2
Do the above steps in Node 2 as well.
So that both the ways we get the reply

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