Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 18:15:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 18:15:34 -0500 Received: from router-100M.swansea.linux.org.uk ([194.168.151.17]:34572 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 18:15:28 -0500 Subject: Re: Multicast on loopback? To: egb@erikburrows.com (Erik G. Burrows) Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 23:12:09 +0000 (GMT) Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: from "Erik G. Burrows" at Feb 13, 2001 03:03:23 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL1] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Alan Cox Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > locally over the loopback interface. This does not work without adding a > bogus route statement to get the kernel to hand up the packets from > loopback to my waiting application. The multicast ABI includes the ability to toggle loopback of multicast datagrams. Use the socket options instead - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/