IPv6 multicast binding (Bugs: JDK-8210493 JDK-8215294)

[Andre Naujoks]

Am 18.06.19 um 15:20 schrieb Alan Bateman:
> On 18/06/2019 13:53, Andre Naujoks wrote:
>> :
>> We tried the old test-code with the Java Version from Debian
>> experimental and it does indeed work now on linux.
> Thanks for confirming.
> 
>>
>> Java on Windows still throws an Exception when trying to bind like this.
> This shouldn't be a big surprise. It's very platform specific as to
> whether you can bind to a multicast address or not. From the previous
> mails then I think the only reason you were doing this on Linux is
> because IP_MULTICAST_ALL doesn't work with IPv6 sockets and you are
> getting interference on systems with multiple network interfaces.

Yes, that is the reason. We can work around this quite easily then.

> 
> -Alan