Socket.joinMulticastGroup

Registers @socket to receive multicast messages sent to @group. @socket must be a %G_SOCKET_TYPE_DATAGRAM socket, and must have been bound to an appropriate interface and port with g_socket_bind().

If @iface is %NULL, the system will automatically pick an interface to bind to based on @group.

If @source_specific is %TRUE, source-specific multicast as defined in RFC 4604 is used. Note that on older platforms this may fail with a %G_IO_ERROR_NOT_SUPPORTED error.

class Socket
bool
joinMulticastGroup

Parameters

group InetAddress

a #GInetAddress specifying the group address to join.

sourceSpecific bool

%TRUE if source-specific multicast should be used

iface string

Name of the interface to use, or %NULL

Return Value

Type: bool

%TRUE on success, %FALSE on error.

Throws

GException on failure.

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Since

2.32