I have an application that meeds to:
- talks in UDP
- support optionally disabling multicast.
- treat multicast message the same way as unicast message but with few restrictions
I thought I should use same UDP socket to receive both unicast and multicast datagrams.
# udp_multicast_recv.py
# Python version used: 3.9.1
import socket
import struct
host = "224.1.1.1"
# host = "0.0.0.0"
listen_all = True
port = 5683
s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_DGRAM)
if listen_all:
s.bind(("", port))
else:
s.bind((host, port))
mreq = struct.pack("4sl", socket.inet_aton(host), socket.INADDR_ANY)
s.setsockopt(socket.IPPROTO_IP, socket.IP_ADD_MEMBERSHIP, mreq)
data = None
print("Listening")
while True:
# data, addr = s.recvfrom(1024)
data, ancdata, msg_flags, addr = s.recvmsg(1024)
print(addr, ":", data, ancdata, msg_flags)
# udp_multicast_send.py
import socket
dest = "224.1.1.1"
dest = "192.168.86.188"
port = 5683
s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_DGRAM)
s.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_REUSEADDR, 1)
s.sendto("Hello world".encode(), (dest, port))
I soon noticed I need a way to distinguish multicast datagram from unicast datagram. But I was unable to find a solution nor related question on how to achieve this on the internet.
Hence the question: When receiving UDP datagram from same socket, is there a way to tell whether datagram is unicast or multicast?
