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Date:      Wed, 11 Nov 1998 12:01:29 -0500 (EST)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        a sun <asun@saul9.u.washington.edu>
Cc:        wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu, stb@hanse.de, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: multicast handling in FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <199811111701.MAA25346@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199811110249.SAA31398@saul9.u.washington.edu>
References:  <199811102210.OAA11742@saul9.u.washington.edu> <Pine.BSF.3.96.981110233528.25849E-100000@transit.hanse.de> <199811110111.UAA22828@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <199811110249.SAA31398@saul9.u.washington.edu>

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<<On Tue, 10 Nov 1998 18:49:52 -0800 (PST), a sun <asun@saul9.u.washington.edu> said:

> do you really intend everyone who uses a program that sets multicast
> addresses to recompile when they upgrade FreeBSD?

Sure -- both of them.

Link-layer multicast handling should under almost no circumstances be
left to applications.  If there's a protocol stack that you're trying
to work with which doesn't provide a proper abstraction layer, please
say so.

-GAWollman

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