> I have a sender and receiver on the **same** Solaris host > publishing and subscribng to the **same** multicast group address. > Questions: > 1. Does the receiver receive the packets after it is forwarded by the > router or does the Solaris OS sends it a copy of the packet as > published by the sender?
It's internally looped back. > 2. What happens if the receiver leaves the group and the sender is > still active? Does the OS sends the IGMP v2 Leave Group Report to the > default router or does it suppress the report since it sees that > there is a publisher for the same group? One does not need to join a group to send multicast, so the leave report will be generated once there are no more listeners. -- meem _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
