[Live-devel] multicast & linux information

[Ross Finlayson]

> It seems that kernel maintainers chose to keep the backward compatibility with a default that cause receiving data from all multicast groups and not only from joined multicast group.
> But they add since kernel 2.6.31 an option that allow to avoid this.

That's good to hear.  (I guess this is the closest they'll ever come to admitting that the default behavior is a bug :-)


> Do you think it could be possible to set this option in socketJoinGroup in a future release of live555 ?

Done!  I've just installed a new version (2013.10.03) of the "LIVE555 Streaming Media" code that sets this option to 0 if it's defined.

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

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