Re: anyone ever done multicast AF_UNIX sockets?

From: Chris Friesen (cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com)
Date: Mon Mar 03 2003 - 13:11:31 EST

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Jeff Dike wrote:

> Well, that problem is actually that lo and dummy interfaces don't support
> multicast. You need something like an eth device for multicast, even if you're
> nowhere near a LAN.

My main gripe was that I had turned *OFF* multicast on the eth
interface, but pinging 224.0.0.1 still went out over the network and I
got all the responses.

Currently I really want to do multicast only on the local box, and I
don't want the packets going out over the network. This is where the
multicast unix sockets came from.

Chris

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