Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2016 10:52:39 -0400 From: Ryan Stone <rysto32@gmail.com> To: Bruce Simpson <bms@fastmail.net> Cc: Ryan Stone <rstone@freebsd.org>, "src-committers@freebsd.org" <src-committers@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r304436 - in head: . sys/netinet Message-ID: <CAFMmRNyi=PwE9pc9_8wCU63=HttUzFR4Zh2v=uHKcQ-zaLxdJQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <3806700d-ed27-7915-4818-c2d64f7b806d@fastmail.net> References: <201608182259.u7IMx5oW002018@repo.freebsd.org> <4fbc2e1d-3a62-5963-83d5-f9c931503e51@fastmail.net> <3806700d-ed27-7915-4818-c2d64f7b806d@fastmail.net>
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On Sat, Aug 20, 2016 at 7:48 AM, Bruce Simpson <bms@fastmail.net> wrote: > It is perfectly legal for broadcast packets to be addressed to the end of > a P2P or non-Ethernet link, which may not set M_BCAST or M_MCAST. The > classic example is ATM (Non-Broadcast, Multiple Access (NBMA)) but the > situation may be readily observed with loopback or tunnels. > Can you give an example of a tunneling protocol support by FreeBSD that may be affected? I looked and didn't see any. OpenVPN, as best that I can tell, injects frames into a tap interface, which appears as a Ethernet interface, for example.
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