From: Jeff Sickel <jas@corpus-callosum.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] multicast
Date: Sun, 24 May 2015 12:03:07 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <263E4319-FAB6-473C-AAE6-378BEC77DAB3@corpus-callosum.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dfc16e101844756a7f41acb76794f608@quintile.net>
Steve,
Did you ever figure out how to setup addmulti?
-jas
> On Oct 6, 2014, at 10:41 AM, Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net> wrote:
>
> I am trying to listen to multicast DNS packets
> but when I try to configure the IP interface it fails,
> what am I missing?
>
> I do this (multicast with promiscuous)
>
> snprint(addr, sizeof(addr), "%s/udp!*!*", Netdir);
> if((cfd = announce(addr, dir)) < 0)
> sysfatal("%s cannot announce, %r\n", addr);
> if(fprint(cfd, "addmulti 224.0.0.251") < 0)
> sysfatal("add multicast addr 224.0.0.251 failed, %r");
>
> and it dies with 'addmulti for a non multicast address'
>
> which is caused by this failing:
>
> /sys/src/9/ip/ipifc.c
>
> int
> ipismulticast(uchar *ip)
> {
> if(isv4(ip)){
> if(ip[IPv4off] >= 0xe0 && ip[IPv4off] < 0xf0)
> return V4;
> }
> else if(ip[0] == 0xff)
> return V6;
> return 0;
> }
>
> But 0xe0 is 224 so it should not fail.
>
> I'am very confused.
>
> -Steve
>
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-06 15:41 Steve Simon
2015-05-24 17:03 ` Jeff Sickel [this message]
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2012-12-24 19:06 [9fans] Multicast Adriano Verardo
2012-12-24 19:49 ` erik quanstrom
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