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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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