[Live-devel] Problem with GroupsockHellper.cpp

Ross Finlayson finlayson at live555.com
Thu Oct 12 12:58:07 PDT 2006


>With the latest version of live555 (Oct 07 2006) on Windows XP, all outgoing
>datagrams have a TTL (Time-to-Live) value of 1, which won't work across the
>Internet.
>
>I noticed that at around line # 77 in GroupsockHelper.cpp, the #ifdef
>WINDOZE were removed causing the calls to setsockopt(REUSEPORT) and
>(IP_MULTICAST_LOOP) to be called.  When I comment-out these calls, the TTL
>value is set to 128 on outgoing unicast datagrams.

OK, starting with the newest version (2006.10.12a), those calls are 
now #ifdef'd out, once again, for Windows.
-- 

Ross Finlayson
Live Networks, Inc.
http://www.live555.com/


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