udav(4) vs. multicast

Christian Weisgerber naddy at mips.inka.de
Tue Jun 1 13:42:39 PDT 2004


Shingo WATANABE:

> I know the udav(4) was ported to FreeBSD, but I don't know why
> programming with big-endian CRC on FreeBSD.

Most likely it's just an error that was introduced when the driver
was ported.

> When I wrote this driver on NetBSD, it worked well with little-endian
> CRC.

Well, many people never use multicast at all, so bugs can go unnoticed
there for a long time.

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy at mips.inka.de


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