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Date:      Sun, 19 Apr 1998 23:14:14 -0300 (EST)
From:      Joao Carlos Mendes Luis <jonny@coe.ufrj.br>
To:        luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it (Luigi Rizzo)
Cc:        deering@cisco.com, mjh@ISI.EDU, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Mbone "terminal"
Message-ID:  <199804200214.XAA20010@roma.coe.ufrj.br>
In-Reply-To: <199804131924.VAA01582@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> from Luigi Rizzo at "Apr 13, 98 09:24:16 pm"

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#define quoting(Mark Handley)
// In any event, the solution I've ended up with is to configure a
// multicast capable FreeBSD "discard" interface, and to set the route
// for 224/4 to point there.
// 
// To do this you need to patch if_disc.c to not set IFF_LOOPBACK.  
// I.e., change:
//         ifp->if_flags = IFF_LOOPBACK | IFF_MULTICAST;
// to
//         ifp->if_flags = IFF_MULTICAST | IFF_BROADCAST;

Is there anything preventing this from being the default for that
interface ?  In a "discard" interface, there's no real meaning in
being LOOPBACK or BROADCAST, since the packets will be discarded.  :)

This seems to be the yield of a conversion (kludge ?) from the
loopback device.

					Jonny

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+55 21 290-4698 ( Job )			jonny@coppe.ufrj.br
M.Sc. Student				Electrical Engineering
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

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