Java MulticastSocket getTTL() method

getTTL() is the method of MulticastSocket class. This method is used to get the default time-to-live for the multicast packets which are sent out on the socket.

Syntax

Returns

It returns the default time-to-live value.

Throw

IOException - This exception occurs while getting the default time-to-live value.

NOTE : this method is Deprecated, instead of this method getTimeToLive method is used as it returns an int instead of a byte.

Example 1

import java.io.IOException; 
import java.net.MulticastSocket; 
public class JavaMulticastSocketgetTTLExample1
{ 
    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException  
    { 
          
        MulticastSocket ms1 = new MulticastSocket(); 
        ms1.setTTL((byte) 25);
         System.out.println("TTL : " + ms1.getTTL()); //getTTL() method
    } 
  
}

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Output:

TTL : 25

Example 2

import java.io.IOException; 
import java.net.MulticastSocket; 
public class JavaMulticastSocketgetTTLExample2 
{ 
    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException  
    { 
          
        MulticastSocket ms1 = new MulticastSocket(); 
        ms1.setTTL((byte) 30);
         System.out.println("TTL : " + ms1.getTTL());//getTTL() method
    } 
  
}

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Output: