Hi,
How should I choose an IPv4 multicast address for my application's use? I may need more than one (a whole range perhaps ultimately) but just want to avoid conflicts with other applications.
- Packets will be entirely contained within an administrative domain, probably a LAN
- If several independent instances of my application are in use on the same network, they could each use their own multicast address - but if they don't, they will be able to coexist anyway, they'll just have a small amount of overhead ignoring each others' packets.
- My packets already contain a "magic number" to avoid problems
- I will be checking the originator address (which I know can be spoofed of course), TTL and other things to try to prevent unexpected packets mucking things up.
Ideas please :)
Currently I've just allocated an arbitrary one from the "local use" space, 239.255.42.99