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).
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