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Date:      Thu, 7 Jun 2001 08:31:15 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Luigi Rizzo <luigi@info.iet.unipi.it>
To:        Christopher Schulte <christopher@schulte.org>
Cc:        stable@freesd.org, net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: bdg_forward drop MULTICAST PKT
Message-ID:  <200106070631.IAA39510@info.iet.unipi.it>
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20010607000129.025e7820@pop.schulte.org> from Christopher Schulte at "Jun 7, 2001 00:17:47 am"

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> Now with the reboot into 4.3-RELEASE (RELENG4_3) 2001-06-05, I see this 
> message on console and in logs:
> 
> Jun  6 21:20:21 xxxxxx bdg_forward drop MULTICAST PKT

ok, i think one can just remove the message with relatively little
harm.

The thing is, such multicast packets might be useful for the upper
layers of the protocol stack, but the firewall does not have enough
granularity to tell "do not forward this packet but still pass them
up". With unicast there is not such a problem (a packet goes only
to one place).

The warning was there just to remind [me] what was going on.

	cheers
	luigi


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