Posts with Tag: HowTo

MediaWiki + Ubuntu 11.04 & Customizations

Recently, I setup a personal wiki for myself since I’m always encountering more information than I h ...

DD-Wrt Micro on Linksys WRT54Gv6

Today on a whim I decided to pickup a Linksys WRT54Gv6 wireless router from Staples. It was on sale ...

Tutorial: Ns-2.33 (and nam) on Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron)

Since I have been working with ns2 for the last few months in preparation for my thesis I have decid ...

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Multicast Ipv4 and Ipv6 in Java / Kotlin

I recently ran into a peculiarity of multicast in Java / Kotlin. I was using a MulticastSocket: [https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/net/MulticastSocket.html](https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/net/MulticastSocket.html) and trying to ensure that it winds up bound to either an Inet4Address or Inet6Address. It turns out that even if I did something like: ``` val multicastSocket = MulticastSocket(InetSocketAddress("0.0.0.0", MULTICAST_DEFAULT_PORT)) assert(multicastSocket.localAddress is Inet4Address) ``` The assertion could fail. Similarly if I did: ``` val multicastSock ...