bin/111493: routed doesn't use multicasts for RIPv2 via P2P interfaces

[James Carlson]

The following reply was made to PR bin/111493; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: James Carlson <carlsonj at workingcode.com>
To: Vernon Schryver <vjs at calcite.rhyolite.com>
Cc: bms at incunabulum.net, dan at obluda.cz, freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: bin/111493: routed doesn't use multicasts for RIPv2 via P2P interfaces
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 08:46:56 -0400

 Vernon Schryver writes:
 > What do you think of the enclose patch?  It differs from the original
 > in two ways that should reduce behavior changes seen by people with
 > IFF_POINTOPOINT interfaces without IFF_MULTICAST.  If it makes sense,
 > I'll generate a bundle on http://www.rhyolite.com/src/
 
 It seems reasonable to me for RIP.  Looking at the code, it seems that
 rdisc already handles this case -- despite the comment to the contrary
 on send_adv's and send_rdisc's 'dst' argument, the value can be a
 multicast destination (not just 0 or unicast), and often is.
 
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 James Carlson         42.703N 71.076W         <carlsonj at workingcode.com>