From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Cc: Donald Becker <becker@scyld.com>, netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: SIOCADDMULTI for unicast broken
Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2003 20:18:00 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E163648.2040204@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030103164001.S48623@shell.cyberus.ca>
jamal wrote:
> Some programs require ability to accept packets destined to certain
> MAC addresses (in addition to their own).
> Example Jerome Ettienes vrrpd (http://w3.arobas.net/~jetienne/vrrpd/)
>
> The trick is to add unicast addresses via SIOCADDMULTI and accept those
> packets when they make their way up the stack.
> I think this used to work, no? Donald, any history/comments behind
> this?
Over and above Donald's comments, from an interface perspective I think
this is a bit of a hack, don't you? :) Calling an "add-multi" ioctl
should do precisely that... and only that :)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-04 1:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-03 21:46 SIOCADDMULTI for unicast broken jamal
2003-01-04 0:07 ` Donald Becker
2003-01-04 1:18 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2003-01-04 1:39 ` Donald Becker
2003-01-04 1:45 ` Ben Greear
2003-01-04 1:52 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-01-06 15:00 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2003-01-04 2:18 ` Donald Becker
2003-01-04 4:11 ` jamal
2003-01-04 6:33 ` Donald Becker
2003-01-04 17:41 ` jamal
2003-01-04 18:24 ` Donald Becker
2003-01-04 18:55 ` jamal
2003-01-04 18:36 ` Julian Anastasov
2003-01-04 19:04 ` jamal
2003-01-05 11:45 ` Julian Anastasov
2003-01-06 13:44 ` jamal
2003-01-06 15:00 ` Julian Anastasov
2003-01-06 17:23 ` jamal
2003-01-04 7:32 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-01-04 17:43 ` jamal
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