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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
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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

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