From owner-freebsd-net Wed Sep 12 8:20: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mail.tcoip.com.br (cerberus.tcoip.com.br [200.220.254.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B9DE37B40A for ; Wed, 12 Sep 2001 08:20:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tcoip.com.br (2j2b5x0zx2mlo526@[192.168.60.194]) by mail.tcoip.com.br (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f8CFGwP04685 for ; Wed, 12 Sep 2001 12:16:58 -0300 Message-ID: <3B9F7C68.3040904@tcoip.com.br> Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 12:16:56 -0300 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20010808 X-Accept-Language: en, pt-br, ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: net@freebsd.org Subject: Final Request for Review Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message