On Thu, 3 May 2001, Jim Bound wrote:
> I don't know Linux at this detail. We should test this on all systems.
> But if Linux is treating the mapped portion as v6 at the point of the send
> and not stripping off all but the low order 32bits when the packet goes to
> Linux version of the DLI then it will get wacked for sure. Also I wold
> check the address family you believe was set for AF_INET for the multicast
> interface set and join operation. Those might be hosed too if my
> suspicion is correct????
Actually I think Linux is just treating ::ffff:224.x.x.x returned from
gethostbyname() as an IPv4 unicast rather than multicast address. Hence
the API socket calls work up until a multicast-specific action is
requested.
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