[issue11247] Error sending packets to multicast IPV4 address

[Charles-Francois Natali]

Charles-Francois Natali <neologix at free.fr> added the comment:

Are you using a default gateway ?
Are you sure this gateway supports multicast ?
See for example http://www.sockets.com/err_lst1.htm#WSAENETUNREACH :
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WSAENETUNREACH (10051) Network is unreachable. 

Berkeley description: A socket operation was attempted to an unreachable network. 

WinSock description: Almost same as Berkeley. For WinSock, this error is equivalent to Berkeley's EHOSTUNREACH error, the catch-all error for unreachable hosts. "You can't get there from here." 

TCP/IP scenario: The local network system could generate this error if there isn't a default route configured. Typically, though, WinSock generates this error when it receives a "host unreachable" ICMP message from a router. The ICMP message means that a router can't forward the IP datagram, possibly because it didn't get a response to the ARP request (which might mean the destination host is down). Note: this error may also result if you are trying to send a multicast packet and the default gateway does not support multicast (check your interface configuration). 
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By the way, when you submit this kind of issue, it's a lot easier to analyse if you provide a sample code.

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nosy: +neologix

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