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Receiving UDP Multicast Packets

Posted on November 11, 2018

I was wondering if I can use my droplet to connect to an api that broadcasts udp multicast packets. I don’t need to send any udp multicast data just receive.



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I’ve been told that multicast traffic is dropped on our network.

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