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Date:      Wed, 12 Sep 2001 12:16:56 -0300
From:      "Daniel C. Sobral" <daniel.sobral@tcoip.com.br>
To:        net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Final Request for Review
Message-ID:  <3B9F7C68.3040904@tcoip.com.br>

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Now that 4.4 is almost out, I'd like people to test 
http://people.freebsd.org/~dcs/ip_output.c.diff for merge to stable 
something like a week after 4.4 is out.

The patch makes the IP stack capable of sending multicast packets out 
application-selected interfaces in the absence of a default route (or a 
multicast route). If the interface has no IP assigned, the packet goes 
out with address 0.0.0.0. All this is in conformance with the multicast 
RFC, and would bring our behavior in sync with other unices out there 
(though other BSDs still don't allow this, it seems).

It has been working on current for a few weeks now (releases 1.128 
through 1.131, iirc -- there may have been an additional release before 
we got it right).

-- 
Daniel C. Sobral                   (8-DCS)
Daniel.Sobral@tcoip.com.br
dcs@newsguy.com
dcs@freebsd.org
capo@notorious.bsdconspiracy.net

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an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.


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