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Re: bind to multicast address fails
- From: Moritz Warning <moritzwarning at web dot de>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 17:10:52 +0200
- Subject: Re: bind to multicast address fails
- Authentication-results: sourceware.org; auth=none
- References: <53722A02 dot 5070201 at web dot de> <20140513145517 dot GS2436 at calimero dot vinschen dot de>
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Thanks for the pointer! :)
On 05/13/2014 04:55 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On May 13 16:19, Moritz Warning wrote:
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>> Hi,
>>
>> I try to bind a socket to a multicast address (239.192.202.5). But it fails with an error:
>> "Cannot assign requested address"
>>
>> Is this not supported using Cygwin? I've added a simple test program in case someone wants
>> to verify.
>
> It's a problem win the underlying Winsock (again). Maybe this discussion
> on stackoverflow helps you along:
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6140734/cannot-bind-to-multicast-address-windows
>
> Right now I have no inclination to workaround this problem in Cygwin.
> Maybe if you ping me again in a month or so. Of course, patches are
> always welcome...
>
>
> Corinna
>
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