If you configure kamailio to listen on a multicast address (eg. `224.0.1.75`)
it _auto_ selects the interface that joins the multicast group. The selection
happens on what the kernel thinks the multicast IP address is active on. This
is decided by the kernel route table since you cannot configure a multicast
address on your interface. In the default scenario this would mean the default
route interface will be selected to join the multicast group. In case you want
to select another interface this is possible by altering the route for that
particular multicast address to the interface you desire. This is a workable
solution but it has the following downsides:
- need to add route manually to specify interface
- multicast for 1 specific address only possible on 1 interface
I would like to propose a solution by adding a config parameter to kamailio
(eg. `mcast_interface`) which could then be defined before each `listen`
directive that is a multicast address. This would allow for selecting an
interface per listen socket in the same way as you can specify the amount of
workers for an interface. In this scenario there is no need for manually adding
a route to specify the interface.
Please let me know if this is a feature that is of interest to kamailio. If so
I'd be willing to work on this myself, but somebody else can also do it.
If something isn't clear or needs more explanation don't hesitate to ask.
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