From: John Dykstra <john.dykstra1@gmail.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: brian.haley@hp.com, dada1@cosmosbay.com,
nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com, fw@strlen.de, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv4/ipv6: check hop limit field on input
Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2009 09:22:10 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1243934530.8439.4.camel@Maple> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090601.190228.75178984.davem@davemloft.net>
On Mon, 2009-06-01 at 19:02 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> And I even remember there are applications that use multicast and
> a hop limit of zero explicitly to keep application traffic only on
> the local subnet. So any change like that proposed could break
> things.
Are you thinking of multicast apps that explicitly set a hop limit, or Multicast
Listener Discovery? The hop limit specified for MLDv2 messages is one,
not zero.
-- John
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-02 9:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-01 15:13 [PATCH] ipv4/ipv6: check hop limit field on input Nicolas Dichtel
2009-06-01 16:19 ` Florian Westphal
2009-06-01 16:49 ` Nicolas Dichtel
2009-06-01 17:13 ` Florian Westphal
2009-06-02 9:30 ` Nicolas Dichtel
2009-06-01 18:43 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-06-01 18:55 ` Brian Haley
2009-06-02 1:54 ` John Dykstra
2009-06-02 2:02 ` David Miller
2009-06-02 9:22 ` John Dykstra [this message]
2009-06-02 9:32 ` David Miller
2009-06-02 9:35 ` Nicolas Dichtel
2009-06-02 9:30 ` Nicolas Dichtel
2009-06-02 9:30 ` Nicolas Dichtel
2009-06-02 2:04 ` David Miller
2009-06-02 5:31 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-06-02 5:43 ` David Miller
2009-06-02 9:36 ` Nicolas Dichtel
2009-06-02 9:37 ` David Miller
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