Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 20:11:20 -0500 (EST) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Stefan Bethke <stb@hanse.de> Cc: a sun <asun@saul9.u.washington.edu>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: multicast handling in FreeBSD Message-ID: <199811110111.UAA22828@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981110233528.25849E-100000@transit.hanse.de> References: <199811102210.OAA11742@saul9.u.washington.edu> <Pine.BSF.3.96.981110233528.25849E-100000@transit.hanse.de>
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<<On Wed, 11 Nov 1998 00:03:29 +0100 (CET), Stefan Bethke <stb@hanse.de> quoted some unnamed individual who said: >> i was wondering why you folks decided to change multicast handling in >> the current FreeBSD. Because the Old Way was never properly integrated with the ability in 4.4 to specify multiple network addresses on a single network interface -- this caused problems when (unicast) addresses were added and removed. >> least, argues that you keep the old interface around. from the >> application level, the new interface looks slightly more complicated >> and somewhat arbitrary. >From the application level there is absolutely no difference -- other than the requirement to actually construct a valid sockaddr. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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