While I try to Multicast something to range of IP in win XP , it works fine but while I run the same application on Win VIsta I am unable to multicast. Do I need to configure or add a publisher info for Win Vitsa?
Edit:
struct sockaddr_in staddr;
memset(&staddr, 0, sizeof(struct sockaddr_in));
staddr.sin_family = AF_INET;
staddr.sin_port = htons(SSDP_PORT); // Use the first free port
staddr.sin_addr.s_addr=inet_addr(SSDP_MULTICAST_ADDRESS);
int socklen = sizeof(struct sockaddr_in);
Edit 2
Socket Creation
int ibindstatus =0 ;
try
{
//Initailize the WinSock
WSADATA wsaData;
WSAStartup(MAKEWORD(2,2), &wsaData);
struct in_addr iaddr;
struct sockaddr_in staddr;
// set content of struct saddr and imreq to zero
memset(&staddr, 0, sizeof(struct sockaddr_in));
memset(&iaddr, 0, sizeof(struct in_addr));
// open a UDP socket
m_iSocket = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, 0);
if ( m_iSocket < 0 )
{
return SOCKET_NOT_AVAILABLE;
}
staddr.sin_family = AF_INET;
staddr.sin_port = htons(SSDP_PORT); // Use the first free port
staddr.sin_addr.s_addr = htonl(INADDR_ANY); // bind socket to any interface
ibindstatus = bind(m_iSocket, (struct sockaddr *)&staddr, sizeof(struct sockaddr_in));
if ( ibindstatus < 0 )
{
return SOCKET_BIND_ERROR;
}
//send the buffer
int iSendStatus = sendto(m_iSocket, cSendData, lSendDataLen, 0,
(struct sockaddr *)&staddr, socklen);
if(iSendStatus< 0)
{
return SEND_ERROR;
}
Well after lotz of experiments I was not able to figure out why Multi casting was not working, and found out suddenly this is because Network Discovery was off on my Vista.
So If here what I did , Go to Control Panel->SetUp File Sharing(Under Network and Internet) ->Sharing and Discovery and then switch on or off the network discovery
Well thatz what work for my application and the source code is what I have posted in my question. Hope fully this will save some of your time and frustation.