svn commit: r217592 - head/sys/netinet

Daniel Eischen deischen at freebsd.org
Thu Mar 31 15:45:23 UTC 2011


On Thu, 31 Mar 2011, Randall Stewart wrote:

> John:
>
> So I caught up with Dave Thaler here at the IETF...
>
> He said that NO UDP socket that has NOT joined a multicast
> group should ever receive a packet sent to a multicast address.
> He also said this was part of the POSIX API and the way
> all Unix machines worked.
>
> So.. no it is a bug and the fix is correct.

Randall, thank you for following this up.  If we ever meet,
I owe you a beer (or drink of your choice) :-)

-- 
DE


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