Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 20:22:22 -0400 From: Rob <telez@brown.edu> To: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ip src address in outgoing ipv4 multicast packets Message-ID: <20020523202222.A6200@lester.manchero.org> In-Reply-To: <20020522202839.A3413@lester.manchero.org>; from telez@brown.edu on Wed, May 22, 2002 at 08:28:39PM -0400 References: <20020522202839.A3413@lester.manchero.org>
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* Rob (telez@brown.edu) [020522 20:30]: > I was just wondering why the src address is set to the host group in > outgoing multicast packets on RELENG_4? As far as I can tell, rfc1054 > says that the src address should be set to that of the host, not the > host group (6.2). The behavior exists in 4.5-release also. > > I noticed this because linux seems to reject mc packets with a multicast > source address (which is also incorrect according to section 7.2). > > Looking at the source, it seems trivial to get the correct (?) behavior. > Is there some reason why we shouldn't do this? If anyone cares I just submitted a pr with an attached patch which will fix this problem. What is a good avenue to get this incorporated into the main tree? http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/38473 -r To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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