svn commit: r206452 - head/sys/netinet

Remko Lodder remko at elvandar.org
Sat Apr 10 19:42:42 UTC 2010


On Apr 10, 2010, at 2:05 PM, Bruce M Simpson wrote:
> 
> Log:
>  Fix a few issues related to the legacy 4.4 BSD multicast APIs.
> 
>  IPv4 addresses can and do change during normal operation. Testing by
>  pfSense developers exposed an issue where OpenOSPFD was using the IPv4
>  address to leave the OSPF link-scope multicast groups on a dynamic
>  OpenVPN tun interface, rather than using RFC 3678 with the interface
>  index, which won't be raced when the interface's addresses change.
> 
> 
>  With these changes, the legacy 4.4BSD multicast API idempotence should
>  be mostly preserved in the SSM enabled IPv4 stack.
> 
>  Found by:	ermal (with pfSense)
>  MFC after:	3 days
> 


\o/ great work Ermal and Bruce!

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