Date: Thu, 29 Jun 1995 12:45:07 PDT From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com> To: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> Cc: Scott Mace <smace@crash.ops.neosoft.com>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Space Shuttle Mission is being broadcasted Message-ID: <95Jun29.124521pdt.49860@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 28 Jun 95 14:49:02 PDT." <199506282149.OAA01416@rah.star-gate.com>
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RIn message <199506282149.OAA01416@rah.star-gate.com> you write:
>Well, there has been some slight problems on the MBONE.
'slight' is putting it lightly.
>BTW: Does anyone if we can generate the bogus ICMP messages mentioned
>in the enclosed mail.
No, we don't. Generally the ICMP messages are generated by ancient boxes
running ancient software; the bug has been fixed long ago. (check
/sys/netinet/ip_icmp.c:
/* Don't send error in response to a multicast or broadcast packet */
if (n->m_flags & (M_BCAST|M_MCAST))
goto freeit;
Bill
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