verrevpath - denies local multicast. Is this intended?

Sten Daniel Sørsdal sten.daniel.sorsdal at wan.no
Thu Sep 25 01:08:33 PDT 2003


> The _only_ thing it does is check that the interface a packet arrives
> on is the same interface that it would route out of to reach 
> the source
> address of the packet. All that matters in this case is where
> 80.86.140.54 gets routed to.
> -- 

Have had some mail problems lately and havent been able to respond, so i try again.
verrevpath does not drop multicast packets, except for locally generated packets that 
are looped back into the interface. But, those are the packets that it logs and drops.

-- Sten


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