Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 19:00:45 -0400 From: Rob <rmanches@cs.brown.edu> To: Naga Narayanaswamy <naga@mindspring.com> Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ip src address in outgoing ipv4 multicast packets Message-ID: <20020524190045.A8865@lester.manchero.org> In-Reply-To: <000f01c202c9$028d6c60$5ab9fea9@compaq>; from naga@mindspring.com on Thu, May 23, 2002 at 10:16:26PM -0400 References: <20020522202839.A3413@lester.manchero.org> <20020523202222.A6200@lester.manchero.org> <000f01c202c9$028d6c60$5ab9fea9@compaq>
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* Naga Narayanaswamy (naga@mindspring.com) [020523 19:21]: > When you say src address is set to host group, what application generates > them? What is the src and dest address ? I quickly checked Rich Stevens vol > II. > Looks like the code has been like this since old days. > Is the application setting the src address as mc group intentionally? yes, it does in the call to bind, though I wouldn't think that one would have to use two sockets for outgoing / incoming traffic if we just wanted to restrict incoming traffic to have a dst address of the host's group. -r To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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