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Date:      Fri, 24 May 2002 19:00:45 -0400
From:      Rob <rmanches@cs.brown.edu>
To:        Naga Narayanaswamy <naga@mindspring.com>
Cc:        freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ip src address in outgoing ipv4 multicast packets
Message-ID:  <20020524190045.A8865@lester.manchero.org>
In-Reply-To: <000f01c202c9$028d6c60$5ab9fea9@compaq>; from naga@mindspring.com on Thu, May 23, 2002 at 10:16:26PM -0400
References:  <20020522202839.A3413@lester.manchero.org> <20020523202222.A6200@lester.manchero.org> <000f01c202c9$028d6c60$5ab9fea9@compaq>

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* Naga Narayanaswamy (naga@mindspring.com) [020523 19:21]:
> When you say src address is set to host group, what application generates
> them? What is the src and  dest address ? I quickly checked Rich Stevens vol
> II.
> Looks like the code has been like this since old days.
> Is the application setting the src address as mc group intentionally?

yes, it does in the call to bind, though I wouldn't think that one would
have to use two sockets for outgoing / incoming traffic if we just
wanted to restrict incoming traffic to have a dst address of the host's
group.

-r

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