On Thu, 17 Aug 2006, Alessandro Saffiotti wrote:
> I ran into the following problem when using setsockopt to create a
> multicast receiver in my own application. Here is the relevant part
> of the code:
>
> tcp_broadcast_receiver = socket(PF_INET,SOCK_DGRAM,IPPROTO_IP);
>
> memset(&imreq, 0, sizeof(struct ip_mreq));
> imreq.imr_multiaddr.s_addr = inet_addr("227.1.3.5");
> imreq.imr_interface.s_addr = INADDR_ANY;
INADDR_ANY is in host byte order, but you need network order for this
call.
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