From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Aug 3 8:17: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (GndRsh.dnsmgr.net [198.145.92.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5659937B405 for ; Fri, 3 Aug 2001 08:16:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net) Received: (from freebsd@localhost) by gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id IAA51292; Fri, 3 Aug 2001 08:16:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <200108031516.IAA51292@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Subject: Re: Request for testers: multicast patch In-Reply-To: <3B6AA752.4070003@tcoip.com.br> from "Daniel C. Sobral" at "Aug 3, 2001 10:29:54 am" To: daniel.sobral@tcoip.com.br (Daniel C. Sobral) Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 08:16:46 -0700 (PDT) Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > [Bcc'ed to -net] > > On http://people.freebsd.org/~dcs/ip_output.c there is a port to stable > of the revisions 1.127 through 1.130 of /sys/netinet/ip_output.c. These > patches do the following: > > 1) Enable one to send multicast packets without a default route or > routes to the multicast addresses. This might break part of the multicast propogation protection, IIRC this was a specific feature of the original Deering multicast code to prevent unwanted propogation of multicast packets on multihomed hosts. > 2) Enable one to send multicast packets on an interface without an address. > > 3) Prevent trouble if packets are sent through an interface without an > address (vlan excluded). What source IP address is used for 2 and 3??? -- Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message