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Date:      Sat, 10 Apr 2010 21:42:38 +0200
From:      Remko Lodder <remko@elvandar.org>
To:        Bruce M Simpson <bms@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r206452 - head/sys/netinet
Message-ID:  <52B0F06D-E40C-4F55-88F3-6721DF83D470@elvandar.org>
In-Reply-To: <201004101205.o3AC5VGp074266@svn.freebsd.org>
References:  <201004101205.o3AC5VGp074266@svn.freebsd.org>

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On Apr 10, 2010, at 2:05 PM, Bruce M Simpson wrote:
> 
> Log:
>  Fix a few issues related to the legacy 4.4 BSD multicast APIs.
> 
>  IPv4 addresses can and do change during normal operation. Testing by
>  pfSense developers exposed an issue where OpenOSPFD was using the IPv4
>  address to leave the OSPF link-scope multicast groups on a dynamic
>  OpenVPN tun interface, rather than using RFC 3678 with the interface
>  index, which won't be raced when the interface's addresses change.
> 
> 
>  With these changes, the legacy 4.4BSD multicast API idempotence should
>  be mostly preserved in the SSM enabled IPv4 stack.
> 
>  Found by:	ermal (with pfSense)
>  MFC after:	3 days
> 


\o/ great work Ermal and Bruce!

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