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Pico W: Joining multicast group doesn't receive messages. #9105

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Originally reported in the forum: https://forum.micropython.org/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=12965

On the Pico W:

import struct, socket

def inet_aton(addr):
    return bytes(map(int, addr.split(".")))

s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_DGRAM)
s.bind(("", 5007))
s.setsockopt(socket.IPPROTO_IP, socket.IP_ADD_MEMBERSHIP, struct.pack(">4sI", inet_aton("224.1.1.1"), 0))
print(s.recvfrom(1024))

From a PC:

import socket

s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_DGRAM)
s.setsockopt(socket.IPPROTO_IP, socket.IP_MULTICAST_TTL, 2)
s.sendto(b'some data', ('224.1.1.1', 5007))
s.close()

This same code works fine when the receiving device is an ESP32. On the Pico nothing is received.

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