Non-standard socket options?

[Alan Bateman]

On 10/05/2013 17:14, Brian Call wrote:
> Thanks for your help guys!
>
> It would be most excellent to have that socket option turned off by 
> default. It would certainly make multicast receivers written in java 
> behave the same way across all the major platforms. Not sure why this 
> wasn't considered a bug in Linux and, in fact, it's vehemently 
> defended as absolutely adhering to the multicast spec.
>
There is a long history there.

One thing that isn't clear about IP_MULTICAST_ALL is whether there is an 
equivalent for IPv6, that might need more investigation.

-Alan

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