Re: QEMU Sockets Networking Backend Multicast Networking Fix

2020-02-18 Thread Jason Wang
On 2020/2/17 下午6:05, Faisal Al-Humaimidi wrote: Hello Jason, But, the local address is not meant to be added to the group, rather we listen to it, hence we bind to the local address. The multicast group is a higher layer that would be requested to join to by the listening host. Here's a sim

Re: QEMU Sockets Networking Backend Multicast Networking Fix

2020-02-17 Thread Faisal Al-Humaimidi
Hello Jason, But, the local address is not meant to be added to the group, rather we listen to it, hence we bind to the local address. The multicast group is a higher layer that would be requested to join to by the listening host. Here's a similar example in multicasting that demonstrates this ide

Re: QEMU Sockets Networking Backend Multicast Networking Fix

2020-02-17 Thread Jason Wang
On 2020/2/15 下午6:39, Markus Armbruster wrote: Jason, please have a look. Faisal Al-Humaimidi writes: Hello QEMU developers, I have noticed a bug in the `mcast` option of the `socket` networking backend, where I simply cannot join a multicast group (tested in Windows 10 with QEMU 4.2.0 rele

Re: QEMU Sockets Networking Backend Multicast Networking Fix

2020-02-15 Thread Markus Armbruster
Jason, please have a look. Faisal Al-Humaimidi writes: > Hello QEMU developers, > > I have noticed a bug in the `mcast` option of the `socket` networking > backend, where I simply cannot join a multicast group (tested in Windows 10 > with QEMU 4.2.0 release). I have found a fix to the problem. T

QEMU Sockets Networking Backend Multicast Networking Fix

2020-02-14 Thread Faisal Al-Humaimidi
Hello QEMU developers, I have noticed a bug in the `mcast` option of the `socket` networking backend, where I simply cannot join a multicast group (tested in Windows 10 with QEMU 4.2.0 release). I have found a fix to the problem. The problem was mainly due to the fact that QEMU was binding to the