Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 13:34:47 +0000 From: bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: [Bug 111493] [patch] routed(8) doesn't use multicasts for RIPv2 via P2P interfaces Message-ID: <bug-111493-8-JGRQrZtyyU@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/> In-Reply-To: <bug-111493-8@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/> References: <bug-111493-8@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>
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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=111493 Mark Felder <feld@FreeBSD.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |feld@FreeBSD.org --- Comment #17 from Mark Felder <feld@FreeBSD.org> --- (In reply to vjs from comment #6) > Multicasting makes no sense to me on an interface > that is really a point-to-point link between two systems. I've had desire to use GRE tunnels to do multicast on several occasions (*cough* between Xen VMs because Xen doesn't support multicast on its virtual switching fabric), and I'd like to note that a few years ago dealing with unchangeable customer network designs I have run into situations where they were doing routing protocols over GRE tunnels advertising using *multicast* which is exactly what this aims to fix. I don't know why this fix has been rotting in a PR for so long. It's a real-world scenario I've encountered in the wild and missing functionality like this is preventing people from being able to replace awful routing equipment with FreeBSD appliances. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
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