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How do I check if my router blocks multicast traffic?

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I am trying a sender and receiver multicast c# program on my computer. How do I check if my router blocks multicasting? i.e whether members of the group receive packets from 224.0.0.1.

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IPv4 routers are required not to forward multicasts to 224.0.0.1. That's the "all hosts" multicast address. That address is not a routable multicast address. See RFC 3171, "IANA Guidelines for IPv4 Multicast Address Assignments". It is not allowed o…

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