dgram_socket.setMulticastTTL()

socket.setMulticastTTL(ttl)

Sets the IP_MULTICAST_TTL socket option. While TTL generally stands for "Time to Live", in this context it specifies the number of IP hops that a packet is allowed to travel through, specifically for multicast traffic. Each router or gateway that forwards a packet decrements the TTL. If the TTL is decremented to 0 by a router, it will not be forwarded.

The argument passed to to socket.setMulticastTTL() is a number of hops between 0 and 255. The default on most systems is 1 but can vary.