I just stumbled upon this problem on an upgrade from 14.10 to 15.04 and this is absolutely killing everything on my network, completely crazy. Using paprefs and disabling the RTP sender did the trick though.
Would be really nice if this was not enabled by default, this completely kills WLAN networks which are probably how most people connect nowadadys... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/411688 Title: pulseaudio floods network with multicast packets To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/pulseaudio/+bug/411688/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs