Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 00:23:02 -0800 (PST)
From: Steve Byrne <sbb@ecomcon.sbay.org>
To: topiolli@ees2.oulu.fi
Subject: Multicast sockets

Topi Maenpaa writes:
 > I have been observing your java port effort for a long time, and I'm
 > happy noticing that it seems pretty much ready now...
 > 
 > You may already know this, but it might help you to know that the
 > multicast socket bug in Linux kernel is corrected in 2.2.1 (may be in
 > 2.2.0 also).

Thanks!  I read the kernel code in 2.0.36, and it explained why I was getting
back an IP address that, if interpreted as characters, spelled out 
"eth0", instead of an actual multicast device address.  I also looked at the
2.2.0 kernel sources, and found out, as you have mentioned that the multicast
socket address problems are fixed there. 

So it's up to Sun to say whether this constitutes passing behavior on a kernel
without proper support for this kind of functionality or not.  Let's cross our
fingers :-)

Steve


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