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Date:      Tue, 28 Apr 1998 13:16:53 -0400 (EDT)
From:      jhall@UU.NET (Jeremy Hall)
To:        fenner@parc.xerox.com (Bill Fenner)
Cc:        luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it, MBONE@isi.edu, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: multiple sdr -- found the problem
Message-ID:  <QQenbx01226.199804281716@neserve0.uu.net>
In-Reply-To: <98Apr28.101247pdt.177515@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> from "Bill Fenner" at Apr 28, 98 10:12:45 am

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then why won't two copies of rat coexist on the same  group/port
combination? (one as a standard tool, and one as a transcoder)

Rat seems to set SO_REUSEADDR when it starts its initial connection in
src/net.c.

_J

Bill Fenner said:
> 
> jhall@UU.NET (Jeremy Hall) wrote:
> >I don't think two processes can own the same group/port combination. This
> >is so the kernel knows where to send the packets. It is annoying if you're
> >trying to run a transcoder.
> 
> If you set SO_REUSEADDR (or SO_REUSEPORT on 4.4BSD), multiple sockets
> may be bound to the same address/port, and multicast packets are delivered
> to each matching socket.
> 
>   Bill
> 


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