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To: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
cc: "Michael C. Newell" <mnewell@lupine.nsi.nasa.gov>, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Multicast on PPP devices 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 21 Aug 95 10:43:47 PDT."
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Mon, 21 Aug 1995 11:18:54 -0700
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>Barring that, someone seems to have changed the INADDR_TO_IFP macro in
>netinet/in_var.h to only search destination addresses, rather than local
>addresses, on point-to-point interfaces.  This will cause mrouted no end
>of grief.

   It was changed to allow the local IPaddr of a point-to-point interface to
be shared, thus routing has to be based on the destination. Do you have a
suggestion on how to keep this functionality and not break multicasts over
point-to-point links?

-DG