RFR: 8219804 ava/net/MulticastSocket/Promiscuous.java fails intermittently due to NumberFormatException

[Michael McMahon]

On 24/06/2019, 11:31, Michael McMahon wrote:
> Hi Mark
>
> On 23/06/2019, 13:53, mark sheppard wrote:
:
>> ​
> Since the socket is receiving something unexpected, I think I agree 
> that binding
> to the multicast address could be worth doing as well. That would 
> filter out
> packets that perhaps broadcast or just sent directly to the bound 
> port, independent
> of the multicast group. I will try out that suggestion and if it works 
> okay,
> I'll include it in the change.
>
It seems that trick doesn't work on Solaris or Windows. I don't think 
it's worth complicating
the test further with more OS specific code. So, for now, I'm going to 
push the change as it is.

Thanks,

Michael.
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