HEADSUP: arp-v2 has been committed
Bruce Simpson
bms at incunabulum.net
Wed Dec 24 06:03:35 PST 2008
Ian FREISLICH wrote:
> ...
> I can't quite remember exactly why imr_ifindex doesn't work, but
> on my hosts which have several hundred interfaces and my OSPF
> sessions are never on the interface that has the default route,
> until I explicitly set the imr_address, the kernel always chooses
> the interface which has the default route.
>
Do you have applications which do not explicitly specify the interface
address to use for multicast group joins?
If they do not, that's a bug in the application -- IPv4 and IPv6
multicast *requires* that a link be specified somehow, either using the
new APIs which take an ifindex, or an IPv4 "primary address".
Unfortunately there has been historical breakage in the multicast APIs.
There are some apps which run before all interfaces have been ifconfig'd
up in the system, and they need to create multicast sockets.
The kernel behaviour you describe is historical and I had to reintroduce
it to avoid breaking such applications. It is a kludge which we probably
can't retire until their developers fix their multicast apps to be aware
of multiple interfaces on the system.
This ground is well covered in the literature and the RFCs.
thanks,
BMS
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