On 10/03/10 10:35, Ben Barker wrote: > Hello - I wonder if someone can help: > > We have some status info being sent by various machines using > multicast addressed udp packets. I have been attempting to use twisted > to write a python script that will passively monitor on the relevant > port for any udp packets with the specified multicast address, which I > can then parse the payloads of as required. > > I have been looking at the examples here: > > http://code.activestate.com/recipes/425975-simple-udp-multicast-client-server-using-twisted/ > > But I seem to have trouble getting them to receive anything at all.
That's a little vague. Does "trouble" mean "it sometimes works" or "never works"? > > I have managed to use tshark to display the packets : > > tshark -i eth0 -x -l -f udp > > so I know the data is there (coming isn on address 224.0.0.4, port 901) FYI, the 224.0.0.0/24 group is usually not IGMP snooped, and is effectively therefore broadcast. Conversely, groups outside this range require working IGMP querying / snooping and some help from (usually) a router, so this may be why you chose this range. Broadly speaking, as long as the UDP socket is listening on the right port and you've called joingroup, you should be ok. Can you post a complete example that isn't working for you? When your code is running, have a look "/sbin/ip maddr" to ensure the group has been added to the socket listen filter. _______________________________________________ Twisted-Python mailing list Twisted-Python@twistedmatrix.com http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python
