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Conference jamin::pathworks32

Title:Digital PATHWORKS 32
Moderator:SPELNK::curless
Created:Fri Nov 01 1996
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:337
Total number of notes:1612

195.0. "Socket API and Decnet Multicast address?" by ALFSS2::OLSEN_G (Hey y'all, how y'all doin'?) Tue Apr 01 1997 18:14

    Programming question.
    
    I have a customer who wants to use the socket API provided with PW32.
    He has an app that runs on the vax and sends data in 802.3 format using
    the Decnet multicast address. He wants to know if it is possible to use
    the socket api from PW32 to send data to the decnet multicast address,
    and would like a simple example or two.  There are examples in the SDK
    but none that pertain to this.
    
    Can anyone help me?
    
    
    Gary Olsen
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195.1it should, but i didnt checkEDSCLU::NICHOLSWed Apr 02 1997 21:4614
NOTE: I am NOT in the PATHWORKS group

my answer would be yes, since the winsock2 api supports this as part
of the 'standard' set of functionality.  See WSAJoinLeaf() for more
information.  (there is an sdk note in here, i believe it has a pointer
to the api spec.  www.stardust.com comes to mind, but i didnt check)

sorry, i dont have any examples.

ymmv, especially since i can not comment with any authority on wheter
the underlying stack supports this

--roger
195.2no multicast in ws2 decnetJAMIN::KROBINSONThu Apr 03 1997 12:387
    Winsock2 DECnet does not support multicast. WSAJoinLeaf() etc. are not
    implimented.  If there was a way to do multicast DECnet, perhaps one of 
    the older PATHWORKS socket apis supports it.  
    
    Ken Robinson
    PATHWORKS 32
    Winsock2 DECnet
195.3no multicast support in stackJAMIN::REICHLENThu Apr 03 1997 15:234
    The stack does not support multicast therefore none of the APIs do.
    
    Diane