networking – Cannot Receive Multicast Frames

multicastnetworking

I'm bringing up a new machine and it cannot receive multicast frames for some reason.

Everything else about the network seems to work fine.

Even multicast frame seems to get out fine because I can start avahi-daemon and on startup I can see multicast going out on another computer on the same switch.

I have this which seems odd:

$ cat /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/0000:58:00.0/net/enp88s0/statistics/multicast
0

Also on tcpdump I get broadcast but no multicast:

$ sudo tcpdump -i enp88s0 -n multicast
tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode
listening on enp88s0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 262144 bytes
14:04:02.076411 IP 192.168.2.56.9999 > 255.255.255.255.9999: UDP, length 29
14:04:17.839828 IP 192.168.2.15.9999 > 255.255.255.255.9999: UDP, length 29
14:04:18.013897 ARP, Request who-has 192.168.2.14 tell 192.168.2.15, length 46
14:04:21.826386 ARP, Request who-has 192.168.2.135 tell 192.168.2.135, length 46
14:04:26.014544 ARP, Request who-has 192.168.2.144 tell 192.168.2.144, length 46
14:04:31.272095 IP 192.168.2.55.9999 > 255.255.255.255.9999: UDP, length 29
...

Any idea where this could be filtered?

Best Answer

I don't have much detail since I basically bruteforced the solution but it seems to be a driver issue.

The computer hardware is the following:

Tiger Canyon
Intel NUC 11 Pro NUC11TNKi5
Ethernet Controller i225-LM

The network driver used is igc.

The problem appears on:

ubuntu-20.04.2-live-server-amd64
5.4.0-77-generic #86-Ubuntu

The problem is fixed on the following Ubuntu Server version:

ubuntu-21.04-live-server-amd64
5.11.0-25-generic #27-Ubuntu