Add a way of disabling multicast receive
ampledata opened this issue · 4 comments
Yes, I realize I just added multicast receive, but running more than one multicast client on the same host is blocked.
The use case is: I want to run multiple multicast senders on one machine.
Ah is it? I just tried two multicast clients on the one machine and it didn't work. I also tried to run two TLS clients on the one machine, and as soon as I launched the second, the first stopped transmitting and receiving. The use case was for debugging and testing.
thanks. I am getting OSError: address already in use
when starting another pytak client ... not on the same machine.
Both Clients are using udp+ro://239.2.3.1:6969 but also triggers if just using udp.
The first client will connect fine. That system is on a standard LAN network. The second machine is using a shared network connection to the first.
I'm not really sure of the canonical topologies when using udp multicast. I think they always require a router, but can I configure a machine acting as a wireless AP to perform udp multicast to connected clients?
Hey @PeterQFR, that's my bad, it should be +wo
, as in 'Write-only'.
As for Multicast on WiFi: It /should/ work on most routers/APs out of the box. To tranverse the network, ensure 'multicast routing' or 'multicast snoop' or 'igmp' are turned on (in the case of my COTS TP-Link AP: yes, IGMP was turned on by default.