On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 2:02 PM, Ross Finlayson <finlay...@live555.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the reply. I know how routing works ;) > > > Well, your use of a “@gmail.com” email address announces to the world > that you don’t know much of anything (and it’s why your email to the list > is moderated). Just saying :-) > > Haha! There are issues with gmail now? Sigh .. I figured I'd get less help supplying my workplace address and not all of us have personal domains ;). I'll do that from now on. > > I have one single interface in AP mode and the kernel will *never* choose > it for mcast routing even though a route is present, mcast is enabled, etc. > > > If you have a single interface on which IP multicast routing is enabled, > but IP multicast doesn’t work, then that sounds like a bug in your system > somewhere (perhaps a device driver). > It was an issue with kernel 3.13 ... updated to 3.15 and an opensource driver. It's fixed for now. It's no longer a live555 issue. > Even a WiFi interface in Access Point mode (assuming that that’s what you > meant by “AP mode”) should be able to send/receive IP multicast. > I had to stop assuming this sort of thing for 802.11 devices... especially where only closed-sourced drivers exist. > > As I said before, setting one of your interfaces (but no other) to have a > route for 224/8 is usually the most reliable way to have it chosen for IP > multicast. But if that doesn’t work, you can try setting the global > variables “SendingInterfaceAddr” and “ReceivingInterfaceAddr” to explicitly > set the interface that you want to use. (But that’s definitely not 100% > reliable either.) > As an aside - From a networked library writers perspective, I wonder when it's appropriate to allow forcing an interface (ie - ignoring routing) ... anyways. Thanks. This issue is closed. > > Ross Finlayson > Live Networks, Inc. > http://www.live555.com/ > > > _______________________________________________ > live-devel mailing list > live-devel@lists.live555.com > http://lists.live555.com/mailman/listinfo/live-devel > >
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