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Type : System
Operating System : Linux

This howto explain how to enable or disable multicast on network device

DEVICE ETH0 :

# ifconfig eth0
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0C:29:F1:FF:EA  
inet addr:78.46.74.27  Bcast:78.46.74.31  Mask:255.255.255.224
inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:fef1:ffea/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500  Metric:1
RX packets:5339836 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:5486444 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:820300389 (782.2 MiB)  TX bytes:1929979381 (1.7 GiB)
Base address:0x1400 Memory:e8820000-e8840000

Disable Multicast:

ifconfig eth0 -multicast

result :

# ifconfig eth0
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0C:29:F1:FF:EA  
inet addr:78.46.74.27  Bcast:78.46.74.31  Mask:255.255.255.224
inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:fef1:ffea/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST MTU:1500  Metric:1
RX packets:5339836 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:5486444 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:820300389 (782.2 MiB)  TX bytes:1929979381 (1.7 GiB)
Base address:0x1400 Memory:e8820000-e8840000

No Multicast present in the interface

Enable Multicast :

ifconfig eth0 multicast

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