If anyone really wants the MULTICAST_LOOP functionality, we can add it back and try to make the documentation and defaults clear...
On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 11:25 AM, Marten Feldtmann <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, but now we have to answer theses questions and actually all answers > are not the way that they are clear in a sense, that programmers might > know, what that means in real live. > > As I understand the situation: > > - the reason are mainly due to the Windows platform > > - it is not allowed to have a multicast receiver on the same computer > (including virtual machines ??) when there is a multicast sender and > both want to talk with each other. > > Marten > > On 08.06.2013 09:56, Pieter Hintjens wrote: >> If you use MULTICAST_LOOP, you break PGM reliability (Steve explains >> why in that email). >> >> The feature was removed to stop people using it and then asking why >> PGM wasn't working. >> >> -Pieter >> >> On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 12:12 AM, Chinmay Nerurkar >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> We are building a system using ZeroMQ 3.2.3 which will have processes >>> publishing/subscribing on/to multicast channels using PGM (epgm). We would >>> ideally like to have the capability to let a process subscribe to a >>> multicast group where the publishing process resides on the same host. This >>> capability was available through setsockopt() using MULTICAST_LOOP in ZeroMQ >>> v.2.x but has been taken out in the current version. I can put the hooks >>> back into our local ZeroMQ repo to enable MULTICAST_LOOP. However going >>> through some of the dev-list posts like >>> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.zeromq.devel/2254/match=multicast it >>> seems like it was taken out for a reason. >>> >>> >>> >>> Can anyone elaborate the reason why MULTICAST_LOOP was taken out of the >>> library and what are the possible side-effects of putting it back in? >>> >>> >>> >>> Thanks. >>> >>> >>> >>> Chinmay >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> zeromq-dev mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> zeromq-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev > _______________________________________________ > zeromq-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev _______________________________________________ zeromq-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev
