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Re: Cygwin 1.5.18: Problem using setsockopt() for multicast
On Aug 17 09:06, Brian Ford wrote:
> My point should have been that I use this construct every day in 1.5.18
> and 1.5.21 within our application and it works fine. I saw very few
> differences. Here is my snippet in case I missed something else obvious:
>
> fd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, 0);
>
> Oh yeah, you must call the setsockopt below after the bind on windows.
> Search MSDN for why.
Uh, that's the important clue! I didn't know that and would have been
puzzled by this and found the relevant article in MSDN only after hours
of debugging. Thanks for the information, it's pretty valuable.
Corinna
P.S.: Do you know the MSDN articel off-hand, maybe?
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