[ofw] Is multicasting supported in WinOFED?

Hefty, Sean sean.hefty at intel.com
Wed Mar 7 10:12:35 PST 2012


> If multicasting works, is there any Windows sample out there on how to do it?
> Which API can I use? To be honest, I have never used multicasting before. Does
> it work just with the well-known IPv4 multicast addresses on IB, too?

The Windows stack lacks the kernel support necessary to support user space multicast use in a meaningful way.  :(

If it did, I would expect it to work with the well-known IPv4 multicast addresses similar to the Linux implementation.

- Sean



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