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

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Date:	Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:10:12 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
cc:	niv@...ibm.com, nhorman@...driver.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	vladislav.yasevich@...com, dlstevens@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: PATCH: Multicast: Filter multicast traffic per socket mc_list

On Fri, 17 Apr 2009, David Miller wrote:

> And the fact is, WE DID MEAN to do things this way.

I fully agree. We meant to do this.

> As David Stevens explained, the original creator of multicasting, the
> original BSD code, and the RFCs, INTENDED this behavior from the very
> beginning.
>
> You want to ignore all of this, as if none of it matters and that what
> you want to achieve is so much more important.

I am not ignoring it. It seems just that other OSes have moved from this
and we are one of the last holdouts. Its not only Solaris but also BSD and
Windoze. Best to have a solution that is consistent across multiple OSes.


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