support for multicast socket

Tue Apr 30 17:05:00 GMT 2002

Hi,
I'm porting a network protocol (about 50K lines of code) developed in
UNIX into cygwin, and I ran into problems when I want to open a
multicast socket.
When I bind() a network socket to a multicast address/port, I got an
error EADDRNOTAVAIL. Below is a distilled sample code, sample output,
and my cygwin configuration.
Has anyone been successful in using multicast in cygwin? If multicast
socket is not currently implemented in cygwin, are there plans to
implement it in the near future? Any pointer is much appreciated.
Thanks. Yang-hua
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Sample code to open a multicast socket
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <strings.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <netdb.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <netinet/in.h>	/* sockaddr_in{} and other Internet defns */
int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
 char *name = "235.1.2.3";
 int port = 5000;
 // resolve the IP address
 struct hostent *host;
 if ((host = gethostbyname(name)) == NULL) {
 printf("\nhostname %s not found", name);
 return -1;
 }
 int ip = htonl(*(int *)host->h_addr);
 int fd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, 0);
 
 struct sockaddr_in sock;
 bzero((char *)(&sock), sizeof(sock));
 sock.sin_family = AF_INET;
 sock.sin_addr.s_addr = htonl(ip);
 sock.sin_port = htons(port);
 if (bind(fd, (struct sockaddr *)&sock, sizeof(sock)) < 0) {
 perror("bind");
 } else {
 printf("bind to multicast address OK\n");
 }
 close(fd);
}
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Sample output
[yhchu]/cygdrive/c/:{555}:$ ./a.exe
bind: errno EADDRNOTAVAIL triggered
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Other relevant information about my cygwin
Cygwin Win95/NT Configuration Diagnostics
Current System Time: Tue Apr 30 18:55:29 2002
Windows NT Ver 4.0 Build 1381 Service Pack 5
Path:	C:\cygwin\usr\local\bin
	C:\cygwin\bin
	C:\cygwin\bin
	c:\Perl\bin\
	c:\WINNT\system32
	c:\WINNT
	c:\PROGRA~1\CMU\KCLIENT\bin32
	c:\PROGRA~1\Transarc\AFS\AFSCLI~1\PROGRAM
	c:\WINNT\System32\WBEM
	C:\cygwin\bin
	c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\Common\Tools\WinNT
	c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\Common\MSDev98\Bin
	c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\Common\Tools
	c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\bin
SysDir: C:\WINNT\System32
WinDir: C:\WINNT
CYGWIN = `ntsec tty'
HOME = `c:\'
MAKE_MODE = `unix'
PWD = `/cygdrive/h/cmcl-yhchu/yhchu/Code'
USER = `yhchu'
 751k 2002年02月25日 C:\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0
 "cygwin1.dll" v0.0 ts=2002年2月25日 11:14
 Cygwin DLL version info:
 DLL version: 1.3.10
 DLL epoch: 19
 DLL bad signal mask: 19005
 DLL old termios: 5
 DLL malloc env: 28
 API major: 0
 API minor: 51
 Shared data: 3
 DLL identifier: cygwin1
 Mount registry: 2
 Cygnus registry name: Cygnus Solutions
 Cygwin registry name: Cygwin
 Program options name: Program Options
 Cygwin mount registry name: mounts v2
 Cygdrive flags: cygdrive flags
 Cygdrive prefix: cygdrive prefix
 Cygdrive default prefix: 
 Build date: Mon Feb 25 11:14:34 EST 2002
 Shared id: cygwin1S3
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