[gnet-dev] Re: IPv6 Multicast support in GNet

[David Helder <dhelder gizmolabs org>]

CC'ed to gnet-dev

On Feb 10, 2005, at 5:49 PM, Bodo Thiesen wrote:
> I've written a simple test program, which works fine with IPv4 (232/8) 
> but
> as soon as I try to use it with IPv6, I get the error message 
> "Protocol not
> supported" when I try to join the mc-group. (I tested several multicast
> addresses, e.g. ff1e::1, ff0e::1, ff11::1, ff01::1). Is IPv6 
> multicasting
> known to be broken? It ist broken kernel side or GNet side?
> Tested GNet versions: 2.0.3 and 2.0.5
> Tested Kernel versions: 2.4.23, 2.4.26

Do you know if IPv6 multicast works on your end *outside* of GNet?

> As soon as that works, it could be included as additional test to the 
> GNet
> library code, but I want IPv6 multicast to work first.

I no longer have a IPv6 connection and haven't had IPv4 multicast for 
years.  If you do and can diagnose and fix this, we'd gladly accept a 
patch against GNet.

> BTW: http://www.gnetlibrary.org/index.html, line 70: the <A>-Tag has no
> corresponding </A>-Tag (the slash is missing)

Thanks!

David