Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Jan 2002 19:28:40 -0800 | From | Chris Wright <> | Subject | Re: Multicast fails when interface changed |
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* Christopher James (cjames@berkeley.innomedia.com) wrote:
> It was our expectation that the switch from the first to second > interface should work without any involvement from the application > because the second interface is configured exactly the same as the > first interface. After the switch, everything seems to work with the > exception of multicasting: the multicast membership information is not > propagated to the second interface, it stays with the first interface.
i don't think this is a valid expectation. joining a multicast group is a device specific action. when you join, you either specify an interface to join on (imr_interface=dev_ip_addr) or let the kernel choose (imr_interface=INADDR_ANY). in either case, you are telling some hardware to adjust its multicast filter and identifying that hardware by a unique device index. as alexey mentioned, it sounds like your app has never told the second interface that is should even care about multicast packets. did you try joining on both interfaces? (you may find using a unique service ip addr on each interface, and failing over an application ip addr using aliases will help)
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