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Date:      Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:27:22 +0100
From:      Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>
To:        Bruce Simpson <bms@incunabulum.net>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: IGMPv3/SSM: alpha code drop.
Message-ID:  <20090304132722.11537bwxtk2oys8w@webmail.leidinger.net>
In-Reply-To: <49AE6AAF.5090905@incunabulum.net>
References:  <49ADDDCE.5000203@incunabulum.net> <20090304105525.90665tgxalwo19ss@webmail.leidinger.net> <49AE6AAF.5090905@incunabulum.net>

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Quoting Bruce Simpson <bms@incunabulum.net> (from Wed, 04 Mar 2009 =20
11:49:03 +0000):

> Alexander Leidinger wrote:
>> ...
>> Is this supposed to make multicast work in a jail? In the past I =20
>> tried some simple tests (e.g. mtest(8)), but I wasn't able to =20
>> receive anything in a jail (this test was triggered by the fact, =20
>> that some avahi-tools from the avahi port didn't showed an expected =20
>> result).
>
> Not really, no, I have just been making my best guess here. I would =20
> hope bz would join in once it's checked in -- as I understand it, =20
> jails are a difficult case for multicast (and broadcast) sockets =20
> because of how they change how address lookup works. Other than that =20
> I have done no testing with jails.
>
> I believe the code will continue to work as-is, however others are =20
> welcome to test and contribute once it's in.

Thanks for the info. I hope the vimage stuff will change this =20
situation regardless of the fact if someone jumps in and makes the =20
current stuff work or not.

Bye,
Alexander.

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