From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel Lezcano Subject: Re: [patch 12/12] net namespace : Add broadcasting Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 12:54:33 +0100 Message-ID: <45B202F9.1050107@fr.ibm.com> References: <20070119154714.439706567@localhost.localdomain> <20070119155406.351528195@localhost.localdomain> <20070120045837.GD6123@MAIL.13thfloor.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: containers@lists.osdl.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mtagate3.de.ibm.com ([195.212.29.152]:31438 "EHLO mtagate3.de.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965251AbXATLzD (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Jan 2007 06:55:03 -0500 Received: from d12nrmr1607.megacenter.de.ibm.com (d12nrmr1607.megacenter.de.ibm.com [9.149.167.49]) by mtagate3.de.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l0KBt1vn047954 for ; Sat, 20 Jan 2007 11:55:01 GMT Received: from d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com (d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com [9.149.165.228]) by d12nrmr1607.megacenter.de.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v8.2) with ESMTP id l0KBt1hm614506 for ; Sat, 20 Jan 2007 12:55:01 +0100 Received: from d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id l0KBt18j003286 for ; Sat, 20 Jan 2007 12:55:01 +0100 To: Herbert Poetzl In-Reply-To: <20070120045837.GD6123@MAIL.13thfloor.at> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Herbert Poetzl wrote: > On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 04:47:26PM +0100, dlezcano@fr.ibm.com wrote: >> From: Daniel Lezcano >> >> Broadcast packets should be delivered to l2 and all l3 childs > > hmm, really? shouldn't it only reach those which > actually have related addresses assigned? Yes right but this is what happens, My sentence is incomplete. "broadcast packets should be delivered to l2 and all l3 childs having sockets listening for this broadcast address" Thanks.