svn commit: r317443 - head

Bryan Drewery bdrewery at FreeBSD.org
Wed Apr 26 16:50:55 UTC 2017


Author: bdrewery
Date: Wed Apr 26 16:50:54 2017
New Revision: 317443
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/317443

Log:
  Revert r317432 and add a new entry for r316527.
  
  Requested by:	imp

Modified:
  head/UPDATING

Modified: head/UPDATING
==============================================================================
--- head/UPDATING	Wed Apr 26 16:27:20 2017	(r317442)
+++ head/UPDATING	Wed Apr 26 16:50:54 2017	(r317443)
@@ -76,6 +76,11 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 12
 	installed. To continue using aarch64-binutils, set
 	CROSS_BINUTILS_PREFIX=/usr/local/aarch64-freebsd/bin .
 
+20170405:
+	The UDP optimization in entry 20160818 that added the sysctl
+	net.inet.udp.require_l2_bcast has been reverted.  L2 broadcast
+	packets will no longer be treated as L3 broadcast packets.
+
 20170331:
 	Binds and sends to the loopback addresses, IPv6 and IPv4, will now
 	use any explicitly assigned loopback address available in the jail
@@ -215,6 +220,14 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 12
 	to 1200005.
 
 20160818:
+	The UDP receive code has been updated to only treat incoming UDP
+	packets that were addressed to an L2 broadcast address as L3
+	broadcast packets.  It is not expected that this will affect any
+	standards-conforming UDP application.  The new behaviour can be
+	disabled by setting the sysctl net.inet.udp.require_l2_bcast to
+	0.
+
+20160818:
 	Remove the openbsd_poll system call.
 	__FreeBSD_version has been bumped because of this.
 


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