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>Sorry, I'm not too familiar with the multicast code, so probably
>some MCAST geeks like Bill Fenner could speak up?  :-)

Boy, has this code ever evolved since 1997 =)

I haven't had a chance to look at this yet (tomorrow's Internet-Draft
deadline is crushing me right now), but I think ruslan's analysis is
correct (in particular, it should be allowed to send a multicast with
all-zeroes source address on an interface with no addresses).

  Bill

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