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Eio.Net: IPv6 multicast support #536

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adatario opened this issue May 30, 2023 · 1 comment
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Eio.Net: IPv6 multicast support #536

adatario opened this issue May 30, 2023 · 1 comment
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adatario commented May 30, 2023 •
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IPv6 offers support for sending packets to multiple recipients. This is done via multicast groups. A list of multicast groups is maintained by the IANA.

In Unix a socket that is used for multicast must be joined to a group via a setsockopt call:

setsockopt(sd, IPPROTO_IPV6, IPV6_JOIN_GROUP, <group>, ...)

It would be nice for Eio to expose an API for doing IPv6 multicast.

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avsm commented May 30, 2023

+1 for multicast support; we need to do this systematically for IPv4 sockets as well.

@avsm avsm added the enhancement New feature or request label May 31, 2023
@balat balat modified the milestone: Eio 1.0 Jun 2, 2023
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