From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH] make ipv4 multicast packets only get delivered to sockets that are joined to group Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 18:09:48 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20060913.180948.74739586.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1158163943.15449.75.camel@dantu.rdu.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: dlstevens@us.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from dsl027-180-168.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([216.27.180.168]:2268 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751297AbWINBI5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Sep 2006 21:08:57 -0400 To: jlayton@poochiereds.net In-Reply-To: <1158163943.15449.75.camel@dantu.rdu.redhat.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: Jeff Layton Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 12:12:23 -0400 > Most of the RFC's I've looked at don't seem to have much to say about > how multicasting works at the socket level. Is there an RFC or > specification that spells this out, or is this one of those situations > where things are somewhat open to interpretation? In these cases, whatever BSD does is effectively the definition of what should happen since it is the "BSD socket API".