On 04/23/2018 06:22 AM, Klebsch, Mario wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> I have a problem with multicast reception in the linux kernel and I hope, 
> this is the right place to ask for help or to report a bug.
> 
> I need to receive multicasts on a single interface. I have written a small 
> program, which executes IP_ADD_MEMBERSHIP with imr.imr_ifindex set to the 
> interface index. The program works well, as long as only a single instance of 
> this program is running. If I start a second instance on a different network 
> interface, both programs receive multicast frames from both interfaces. 
> 
> When called without argument, the test program list the network interfaces. 
> When called with an interface name as argument, if starts receiving 
> multicasts on that interface.
> 
> I am running vanilla Linux kernel 4.12.0.
> 
> # uname -a
> Linux c627 4.12.0 #1 SMP Mon Apr 23 14:08:24 CEST 2018 i686 Intel(R) Core(TM) 
> i5-7400 CPU @ 3.00GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
> # 
> 
> P.S. The program runs fine on MacOSX.
>

It looks like your program needs to use SO_BINDTODEVICE if it really wants this 
device filtering ?

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