Re: [tkined] Probs with multicast

From: Juergen Schoenwaelder (schoenw@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de)
Date: Wed Jul 05 2000 - 14:29:42 MET DST

>>>>> Carsten Zerbst writes:

Carsten> I have some problem with multicast. If I open sockets on
Carsten> different groups and sockets and send with multicast to them,
Carsten> the results look more like a broadcast. Disregarding the
Carsten> group, all client socket with the same port get the
Carsten> packages. That is not the behaviour I expected. Did I
Carsten> something wrong or haven't I understand the multicast
Carsten> functionality ?

I do not understand where the problem is. Your server sends 4
multicasts to all the four different multicast transport addresses. So
you get four bindings evaluated - each binding for a different udp
socket handle. The only problem I can see is that the output of udp
info is not very useful in this case...

Here is a revised version of your example. (Note that the client does
not even have to use a multicast UDP socket if he just specifies a
multicast address as the destination.)

client:

        set u [udp open]
        udp send $u 224.1.0.0 5678 "foobar"
        udp send $u 224.1.0.0 5679 "barfoo"

server:

        proc getit {u} {
             puts "$u: got [udp receive $u] ([udp info $u])"
        }

        lappend l [udp multicast open 224.1.0.0 5678]
        lappend l [udp multicast open 224.1.1.0 5678]
        lappend l [udp multicast open 224.1.0.0 5679]
        lappend l [udp multicast open 224.1.1.0 5679]

        foreach u $l {
            udp bind $u readable [list getit $u]
        }

        vwait forever

The output I get in this case on the server side is:

    udp1: got 134.169.34.191 52111 foobar (0.0.0.0 5678 0.0.0.0 0)
    udp3: got 134.169.34.191 52111 barfoo (0.0.0.0 5679 0.0.0.0 0)

I think this is just working fine.

/js 

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