Re: [PATCH 1/3] netfilter: arptables: add mcmangle target

[Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>]

Patrick McHardy wrote:
> Great name. Took me a bit to realize the connection to "multicast" :)

I thought about mcnugget target, but it seems to be already copyrighted ;)

> Continuing the idea of a generic ARP address mangling target,
> this would have to be done in userspace using SIOCADDMULTI.
> 
> I would also prefer that approach because the multicast mangling
> seems a bit like a hack which only works when the requesting
> host accepts a multicast MAC address in the ARP reply.

Indeed, I didn't know about SIOCADDMULTI, great. I'll do it like you
have proposed. Thanks.

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