<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Do the host-only network interfaces in any way behave differently to the typical tun/tap Ethernet devices Linux offers? I mean in terms of multicast reception. So if I bridge from the physical device to the host-only interface then it should be able to process multicast pakets as well right?<br></span></div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> Klaus Espenlaub <klaus.espenlaub@oracle.com> schrieb am 18:20 Dienstag, 8.Juli 2014:<br> </font>
</div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container">Karoline,<br clear="none"><div class="yqt3367539903" id="yqtfd24732"><br clear="none">On 08.07.2014 17:42, Karoline Haus wrote:<br clear="none">> Hi there, I was just wondering, if it was possible to control multicast<br clear="none">> reception for VMs via host-only interfaces via the VBOX API? I could not<br clear="none">> find anything but not sure I searched in the right place. Thanks for any<br clear="none">> pointers!</div><br clear="none"><br clear="none">There's nothing in the API controlling this, and the reason is that the <br clear="none">emulation itself deals with ethernet frames. It couldn't care less what <br clear="none">they mean. Of course the actual behavior heavily depends on the <br clear="none">networking mode (NAT definitely doesn't handle multicast in a sensible <br clear="none">way), and bridged/host only/internal network should be able to handle <br clear="none">them.
Theoretically. Not aware of this getting tested :)<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Klaus<br clear="none"><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">vbox-dev mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:vbox-dev@virtualbox.org" href="mailto:vbox-dev@virtualbox.org">vbox-dev@virtualbox.org</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="https://www.virtualbox.org/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev" target="_blank">https://www.virtualbox.org/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev</a><div class="yqt3367539903" id="yqtfd81678"><br clear="none"></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>