PGM Support on W2K8R2

Question

I use PGM in a database event generation system under XP and W2K3 on 32-bit and it works fine. ported the code to 64-bit using W2K82 and it no longer works. I get errors on a number of basic socket calls such as connect, and so on. So, I extracted the relevant code into a separate binary for testing purposes and have found that though I can get the code to work fine on the original platforms it does not run on W2K8R2 under either 32-bit or 64-bit builds. Essentially, when I call connect on the sender socket to set the multicast address (I have tried a variety of addresses in the 234.x.x.x and 225.x.x.x and so on), I get an error for claiming an invalid parameter (even though there are only three parameters to the function call). Both the W2K3 and W2K8R2 boxes are multihomed. Is there a known issue with PGM on W2K8R2? Are there any changes to the implementation that mean that I have to code the senders and receivers differently.

I can make the source code of the test program available if that is useful.

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Keith

Answer 1

Hi,

This forum is for questions related to the Server Core installation option of Windows Server 2008. You should try one of the networking forums, such as http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/wsk/threads

Andrew

Answer 2

Andrew - the administrators in both forums think this question is in the wrong one.  I have this problem as well. I think I may open a tech support case  -- do you recommend that?