From: Dan Janowski <danj@3skel.com>
Date: 2004-05-21T14:14:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Multicasting with Ruby?

I got your program running under solaris. Solaris has some alignment 
padding in the sockaddr struct, so the [4..7] is needed. I added 
address reuse, though on *BSD it should be SO_REUSEPORT which is not a 
ruby constant; for Solaris SO_REUSEADDR works.

The only thing I materially changed was to remove the connect and put 
the add_membership after the bind.

Hope this works for you.

Dan


require 'socket'

port  = 1212
addr  = '228.5.6.8'
host  = Socket.gethostname
maddr = addr.split('.').collect! { |b| b.to_i }.pack('CCCC')

# mreq from netinet/in.h
# in_addr multicast address
# in_addr local IP address of interface

sa=(Socket.gethostbyname(host)[3])[4..7]

mreq  = maddr + sa

sock  = UDPSocket.new
sock.setsockopt(Socket::SOL_SOCKET,Socket::SO_REUSEADDR,1)
sock.bind(addr, port)

sock.setsockopt(Socket::IPPROTO_IP, Socket::IP_ADD_MEMBERSHIP, mreq)

# Check send ...
sock.send('Hello', 0,addr,port)
sock.send('World', 0,addr,port)

# Check listen ...
count=0
5.times {
   count += 1
   p "COUNT = #{count}"
   p sock.recvfrom(8)
}

sock.setsockopt(Socket::IPPROTO_IP, Socket::IP_DROP_MEMBERSHIP, mreq)

exit( 0 )

On May 20, 2004, at 03:43, Daemon Le wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
> I'm trying to "listen" on a multicast using Ruby.  After trolling the
> news groups and "google", I was able to find a rudimentary set of code 
> in
> my attempt to listen on multicasting, but it doesn't quite work and I
> don't know why?  Does anyone know of good resources (webpage or book) 
> for
> multicasting with Ruby?  Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Here's the sample code that "semi" works...
>
> --- begin ------------------------------------
> require 'socket'
>
> port  = 1212
> addr  = '228.5.6.8'
> host  = Socket.gethostname
> maddr = addr.split('.').collect! { |b| b.to_i }.pack('CCCC')
> mreq  = maddr + Socket.gethostbyname(host)[3]
> sock  = UDPSocket.new
>
> sock.setsockopt(Socket::IPPROTO_IP, Socket::IP_ADD_MEMBERSHIP, mreq)
> sock.bind(host, port)
> sock.connect(host, port)
>
> # Check send ...
> sock.send('Hello', 0, addr, port)
> sock.send('World', 0, addr, port)
>
> # Check listen ...
> count=0
> 5.times {
>   count += 1
>   p "COUNT = #{count}"
>   p sock.recvfrom(8)
> }
>
> sock.setsockopt(Socket::IPPROTO_IP, Socket::IP_DROP_MEMBERSHIP, mreq)
>
> exit( 0 )
> --- end --------------------------------------
>
> The "Check send" works just fine to send into the multicast address.  I
> check this while listening with tcpdump (i.e., tcpdump 'ip multicast 
> and
> src port 1212 and host 228.5.6.8').  But I'm unable to pick up on the
> "Check listen" part.  It just basically hangs with "COUNT = 1" and 
> waits
> forever even though I can clearly see packets being transmitted over 
> the
> multicast address in question.
>
> FYI.  I'm starting to look at the "rb_spread" module, but I would 
> rather
> try to do this without first...
>
>
> - Daemon
>