Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751305AbWINBI6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Sep 2006 21:08:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751304AbWINBI6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Sep 2006 21:08:58 -0400 Received: from dsl027-180-168.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([216.27.180.168]:2268 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751297AbWINBI5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Sep 2006 21:08:57 -0400 Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 18:09:48 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20060913.180948.74739586.davem@davemloft.net> To: jlayton@poochiereds.net Cc: dlstevens@us.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] make ipv4 multicast packets only get delivered to sockets that are joined to group From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <1158163943.15449.75.camel@dantu.rdu.redhat.com> References: <1158163943.15449.75.camel@dantu.rdu.redhat.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 4.2 on Emacs 21.4 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 710 Lines: 15 From: Jeff Layton Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 12:12:23 -0400 > Most of the RFC's I've looked at don't seem to have much to say about > how multicasting works at the socket level. Is there an RFC or > specification that spells this out, or is this one of those situations > where things are somewhat open to interpretation? In these cases, whatever BSD does is effectively the definition of what should happen since it is the "BSD socket API". - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/