On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, David Miller wrote:

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> No Christoph, do this right.
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	> Linux by default will behave the way it has for 15+ years.  And if an
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> application wants new behavior, you have to ask for it.
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> End of story.

This is not right. All other OSes filter multicast traffic according to
the multicast groups subscribed too (and that includes the evil one).
There is no requirement of asking for "new" behavior. Why should multicast
applications have to add special code to request something that comes by
default on other platforms?

The old behavior does not seem to be usable anyways and its certainly
looks buggy if multicast packets are duplicated by the kernel and sent to
applications that never have asked for it. And OS should do the sane thing
by default and not only if someone asks for it.


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