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Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 13:02:00 +0000
From: Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org>
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Subject: Straw poll - All-interface broadcast/multicast
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On the subject of hacking the network stack to output broadcast/multicast
datagrams on all appropriate interfaces:-

 Who would like a switch to do this in the kernel?

 Who would be happier with a userland convenience function to do it?

 Who would rather roll their own?

I have a diff in the works to do this, 'just for the heck of it', but I am
very wary of putting anything in the stack 'just for the heck of it' as
the current IP_ONESBCAST workaround strikes me as 'good enough'.

BMS