Re: Straw poll - All-interface broadcast/multicast

2003-11-18 Thread William A. Carrel
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bruce M Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 12:19:00PM -0500, Barney Wolff wrote: > > Some questions, because I'd like to be an educated voter. > > > > 1. How does multicast routing work now? Presumably something takes a > > mcast packet

Re: Straw poll - All-interface broadcast/multicast

2003-11-18 Thread Bruce M Simpson
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 12:19:00PM -0500, Barney Wolff wrote: > Some questions, because I'd like to be an educated voter. > > 1. How does multicast routing work now? Presumably something takes a > mcast packet and sends it out to every interface behind which some host > has indicated group membe

Re: Straw poll - All-interface broadcast/multicast

2003-11-18 Thread Barney Wolff
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 01:02:00PM +, Bruce M Simpson wrote: > On the subject of hacking the network stack to output broadcast/multicast > datagrams on all appropriate interfaces:- > > Who would like a switch to do this in the kernel? > > Who would be happier with a userland convenience fun