multicast

Christophe Massiot massiot at via.ecp.fr
Thu Jun 20 15:54:52 CEST 2002


Gavin Kenny <gavinkenny at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> when using VideoLan in multicast mode, does the client
> use IGMP to join a group or does it use some other
> mechanism?

We use IGMP. More precisely, we use the IP_ADD_MEMBERSHIP socket option of the 
underlying operating system.

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