netdev - Re: linux kernel's IPV6_MULTICAST_HOPS default is 64; should be 1?

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Message-Id: <20100503.232249.200767273.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 03 May 2010 23:22:49 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	enh@...gle.com
Cc:	brian.haley@...com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: linux kernel's IPV6_MULTICAST_HOPS default is 64; should be 1?

From: enh <enh@...gle.com>
Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 23:19:22 -0700

> for the *unicast* hops, a part of the RFC i didn't quote says:
> 
>    If the [IPV6_UNICAST_HOPS] option is not set, the
>    system selects a default value.
> 
> but for the *multicast* hops, which is what i'm talking about, this
> part of the quoted text seems pretty definitive:
> 
>            If IPV6_MULTICAST_HOPS is not set, the default is 1
>            (same as IPv4 today)
> 
> this is what my test shows isn't true of linux; linux reuses its
> unicast default instead.

Ok, I see, so yeah this needs to be fixed to use "1" instead of
"-1" in the np->xxx ipv6 socket initialization.
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