Re: Multicast on loopback?

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 13 Feb 2001 23:12:09 +0000 (GMT)


> locally over the loopback interface. This does not work without adding a
> bogus route statement to get the kernel to hand up the packets from
> loopback to my waiting application.

The multicast ABI includes the ability to toggle loopback of multicast
datagrams. Use the socket options instead

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