Jan Ceuleers wrote: > Martin Burnicki wrote: >> I'd expect that either the kernel routed multicast packets to all interfaces >> (isn't that what routers do with multicasts, contrarily to broadcasts?), or >> the application would send an individual packet on each interface. > > Routers have to be told (by means of multicast protocols such as IGMP) > which interfaces to replicate multicast packets onto. >
That assumes that there's a router involved. If it's just to the local LAN then you may not have a router able to route to the other interfaces. In this case it almost certainly have to be done on the local server sending the packets. Danny _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
