On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 12:16:56PM -0300, Daniel C. Sobral wrote:
> 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).
Excellent work Daniel. This should fix zebra's OSPF handling. :)
Joe
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