Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 08:16:46 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> To: daniel.sobral@tcoip.com.br (Daniel C. Sobral) Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Request for testers: multicast patch Message-ID: <200108031516.IAA51292@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <3B6AA752.4070003@tcoip.com.br> from "Daniel C. Sobral" at "Aug 3, 2001 10:29:54 am"
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> [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
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