receiving multicast on a server with multiple interfaces (linux)
问题 To receive a multicast on my not default NIC (dvb) I do the following: open a socket (AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM) join the multicast address with IP_ADD_MEMBERSHIP on the dvb interface bind the multicast address (note that a common error is to bind "0.0.0.0" and then receive on that socket even multicast you are not interested in) and the port at this point the only way to receive the needed multicast packets is to add in the routing table a rule to reach the network where the sender is (another