[Live-devel] Failed to join group: Invalid IP Address

Ross Finlayson finlayson at live555.com
Tue May 15 08:40:54 PDT 2012


> It shows following error messages:
>  
> 00:07:36 Groupsock(8: 232.202.29.84, 18888, 255): failed to join group: setsockopt(IP_ADD_MEMBERSHIP) error: No such device

It sounds like you don't have any multicast route set up on this device.  (The code uses multicast, initially, to figure out the system's own IP address.)

Make sure that you have a route for 224.0.0.0/4 set up on your network interface.  Then the code should work.


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

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