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Q258875: BUG: Win2000 Multicast Groups Not Rejoined When Interface Enable

Article: Q258875
Product(s): Microsoft Windows NT
Version(s): 2000
Operating System(s): 
Keyword(s): kbnetwork kbAPI kbOSWin2000 kbOSWin2000bug kbSDKPlatform kbSDKWin32 kbWinsock kbDSuppor
Last Modified: 19-NOV-2000

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The information in this article applies to:

- Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server 
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Server 
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional 
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SYMPTOMS
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When an interface is disabled and then re-enabled in Windows 2000 either by the
user interface or through MediaSense, if the adapter was joined to multicast
groups, the interface may not be able to receive multicasts from those groups
once it is re-enabled. Internet Group Membership Protocol (IGMP) should be
sending a join message for each group that the computer is a member of when the
interface is re-enabled.


CAUSE
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This problem occurs when the multicast sockets are bound to INADDR_ANY. Mulicast
groups are rejoined as expected if the socket is bound to a specific interface.

RESOLUTION
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Workaround
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A well written application should generally monitor for address changes and
should unjoin and then rejoin the multicast group when there is an address
change (especially when obtaining a different IP address). You can use the
SIO_ADDRESS_LIST_CHANGE option of the WSAIoctl function to receive notification
of an address list change.

STATUS
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Microsoft has confirmed that this is a bug in the Microsoft products that are
listed at the beginning of this article.

REFERENCES
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For additional information, click the article number below to view the article
in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

  Q131978 HOWTO: Receive/Send Multicasts Under WinNT/Win95 Using WinSock

See the "Windows Sockets 2 API Programmer's Reference in the Platform SDK" at the
following Web site:

  http://msdn.microsoft.com/library

Additional query words: IGMP

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Keywords          : kbnetwork kbAPI kbOSWin2000 kbOSWin2000bug kbSDKPlatform kbSDKWin32 kbWinsock kbDSupport kbGrpDSNet 
Technology        : kbwin2000AdvServ kbwin2000AdvServSearch kbwin2000Serv kbwin2000ServSearch kbwin2000Search kbwin2000ProSearch kbwin2000Pro kbWinAdvServSearch
Version           : :2000
Issue type        : kbbug
Solution Type     : kbpending

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