Say I have two multicast programs running on the same machine. One is a sending program, and one is a receiving program. The receiving program has joined the group to which the sender in sending. How does the Linux kernel route these packets? I.e., are the packets just pushed out to the switch for routing, or is the kernel smart enough to do some "local delivery" and directly deliver packets to the listener? Thank you, Matt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html