Misleading / incorrect documentaion on MulticastLoopback (UdpClient)

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Type of issue

Missing information

Description

The documentation states:

Gets or sets a Boolean value that specifies whether outgoing multicast packets are delivered to the sending application.

This implies when setting this property to false, any multicast messages send by the application are not delivered to that same application, but they would be delivered to all other applications on the same host.

At least on Windows systems this is incorrect. Setting this property to false will cause any application in that same Windows host to not receive the messages send. This should be clearly stated in the documentation.

It might be Linux behaviour is different on this topic. If it is, please also state that behaviour clearly.

Page URL

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.net.sockets.udpclient.multicastloopback?view=net-10.0

Content source URL

https://github.com/dotnet/dotnet-api-docs-temp/blob/live/xml/System.Net.Sockets/UdpClient.xml

Document Version Independent Id

63254515-ef81-55e3-3b20-e75ed547b4b7

Platform Id

0d5ffe04-7e97-4651-28f5-9f753cb19712

Article author

@karelz

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