From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pablo Neira Ayuso Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] netfilter: arptables: add mcmangle target Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:13:00 +0100 Message-ID: <4990B87C.5040001@netfilter.org> References: <20090128145801.7501.44459.stgit@Decadence> <499047A3.9000505@trash.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org To: Patrick McHardy Return-path: Received: from mail.us.es ([193.147.175.20]:35201 "EHLO us.es" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753435AbZBIXNQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Feb 2009 18:13:16 -0500 In-Reply-To: <499047A3.9000505@trash.net> Sender: netfilter-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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. -- "Los honestos son inadaptados sociales" -- Les Luthiers