Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 15:11:09 +0900 From: JINMEI Tatuya / =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCP0BMQEMjOkgbKEI=?= <jinmei@isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp> To: gbnaidu@sasi.com Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: multicast packets & tcpdump... Message-ID: <y7vn1i9kcg2.wl@condor.isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp> In-Reply-To: In your message of "Sat, 19 Aug 2000 11:36:22 %2B0530 (IST)" <Pine.LNX.4.21.0008191135290.1108-100000@pcd75.sasi.com> References: <y7vsns1kfw5.wl@condor.isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0008191135290.1108-100000@pcd75.sasi.com>
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>>>>> On Sat, 19 Aug 2000 11:36:22 +0530 (IST), >>>>> "G.B.Naidu" <gbnaidu@sasi.com> said: >> (however, I admit the current BSD's behavior is *worse* than one of >> linux. It simply allows normal user to send invalid packets to the >> wire.) > Any patches for this or is it just over looked? I think the latter is the case. It is easy to just prevent packets with multicast source addresses from being sent, but it is a bit harder to implement the same behavior as linux (i.e. choose another valid address). I'm not even sure if such a behavior is really "correct". JINMEI, Tatuya Communication Platform Lab. Corporate R&D Center, Toshiba Corp. jinmei@isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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