William A.Carrel wrote:
> On Friday, October 24, 2003, at 3:39AM, Robert Elz wrote:
 >
> Potentially, I could go ask for the complete network configuration for 
> the machine and try to use the source address on the packet to help me 
> determine where the packet came from so I can intelligently send the 
> response.  This won't work as soon as I stop talking about link-local 
> multicast though, as the addresses may not provide me with an adequate 
> clue as to where the packets came from.  Plus caring a whole lot about 
> the source address on the packet seems somewhat antithetical to how to 
> play and win a multicast environment.  This mucking about would not be 
> required if the kernel was behaving as the documentation says it should.

One way to handle this without depending on packet source 
addresses is to use the IP_RECVIF socket option.  This gives 
you the index of the packet's arrival interface.

Using this with the hack that allows the IP_ADD_MEMBERSHIP 
option to handle an interface index (by setting the first 
octet to 0), you can quickly discard unwanted multicast 
packets without ever caring about interface IP addresses.

Nick