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Date:      Thu, 13 Nov 2003 15:01:41 -0200
From:      "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@tcoip.com.br>
To:        Andre Oppermann <oppermann@pipeline.ch>
Cc:        Jesper Skriver <jesper@skriver.dk>
Subject:   Re: tcp hostcache and ip fastforward for review
Message-ID:  <3FB3B8F5.7010809@tcoip.com.br>
In-Reply-To: <3FB2C5A3.E6F33B07@pipeline.ch>
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Andre Oppermann wrote:

>=20
> Makes sense.
>=20
> Can we ever have a packet that has a source address with INADDR_BROADCA=
ST
> or IN_MULTICAST?  I can't think of such a case.
>=20
> Can we ever have a packet with destination address INADDR_ANY?  Maybe
> for BOOTP? But then the source address would be 0.0.0.0 too?

IIRC, in case you have an IP-less interface and you want to subscribe it =

to some multicast address, the outgoing packet source address is 0.0.0.0.=


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