linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] make ipv4 multicast packets only get delivered to sockets that are joined to group

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Message-Id: <20060913.180948.74739586.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 13 Sep 2006 18:09:48 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jlayton@...chiereds.net
Cc:	dlstevens@...ibm.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] make ipv4 multicast packets only get delivered to
 sockets that are joined to group

From: Jeff Layton <jlayton@...chiereds.net>
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".
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