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

[Bruce M Simpson]

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

From: Bruce M Simpson <bms at incunabulum.net>
To: James Carlson <carlsonj at workingcode.com>
Cc: Vernon Schryver <vjs at calcite.rhyolite.com>,  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 14:17:52 +0100

 James Carlson wrote:
 > Defaulting what to "off?"  The point of the patch (as I understood it)
 > was to use multicast on interfaces where the interface flags say
 > multicast is supported (IFF_MULTICAST) and where RIP-2 is configured
 > to run and multicast hasn't been explicitly disabled.
 >
 > Why would this work differently than it does on Ethernet?
 >   
 
 Ah, I must have misunderstood the original intent. Please ignore!
 
 regards,
 BMS