Re: Multicast packets dropped; 2.0.34; netcat

dave-mlist@bfnet.com
30 Oct 1998 14:44:07 -0800


Gregory> Why are you binding an interface to a multicast address? That is not
Gregory> allowed in IP so it shouldn't be done.

Oh. Oops. Would that explain the packets I saw getting dropped?

Gregory> allowed in IP so it shouldn't be done. If you want to receive
Gregory> multicast you just need to open a socket on that address and listen.
Gregory> (make sure you have multicast support compiled into the kernel).

OK...

I have an Idea about how to do that in C (thanks to Mr. Stevens), but do you
know if that is possible using netcat?

Thanks,
Dave
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