netdev - Re: PATCH: Multicast: Filter multicast traffic per socket mc

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0904201242270.1585@qirst.com>
Date:	Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:43:45 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
To:	David Stevens <dlstevens@...ibm.com>
cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev-owner@...r.kernel.org, nhorman@...driver.com,
	vladislav.yasevich@...com
Subject: Re: PATCH: Multicast: Filter multicast traffic per socket mc_list

On Fri, 17 Apr 2009, David Stevens wrote:

>         Linux is not Solaris. I think Solaris is wrong to change the
> behavior from the original BSD behavior, but it should be no surprise
> that there are other differences in the API's, too. It's not difficult
> to write code that works as intended on both, and the case Solaris is
> trying to avoid is not really avoided since you can still receive
> unicast traffic, or totally unrelated multicast traffic on the shared
> port and multicast address space. If the app doesn't use the port to

By that you mean unrelated multicast traffic destined to the same
multicast address and port?

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