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Subject: [Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#6707) Announce server on LAN
From: "Per I. Mathisen" <per@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 13:03:27 -0800
Reply-to: rt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, Todd Goodman wrote:
> > I can't imagine an OS not supporting multicasting, it's a important part
> > of IPv4.
...
> I wouldn't have been surprised if Windows didn't support it because
> Winsock is an abomination when they could have used a nice
> well-established interface instead.But that's just MNHO.

Petrus Viljoen posted an URL to winsock code that implements multicast. I
don't see this as an issue any longer. It seems everything under the sun
now supports multicast.

  - Per
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