Multicast addressing and Microswoft loopback adapter

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Jon Jenkins

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I have written 2 applications hosted on the same machine that communicate
with one another via a multicast address. I use the microsoft loopback
adaptor so I don't require a phsical ethernet card. For each application, I
create a socket with a unique port, and associate a common multicast address
with the IP address of the microsoft loopback adaptor i have installed on
the machine.

On an XP machine, I am able to get the applications talking by adding a
route:
route add 230.0.1.3 192.168.0.1

On a windows 200 machine, the route command fails with the following
message:

IP route addition failed: The parameter is incorrect

Is there a way around this?

Thanks in advance for your help

-Jon
 
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