What's wrong with netgraph NG_FWD_NEW_DATA?

[Dean Strik]

Chris Dionissopoulos wrote:
> and for every ng_eiface node you attach you must provide a
> mac address for filtering  (later this will be automated).
[..]
> gw0#ifconfig ngeth0
> ngeth0: 
> flags=28943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,PPROMISC> mtu 
> 1500
>        inet6 fe80::260:8ff:fee8:589e%ngeth0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x6
>        inet 192.168.1.2 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
>        ether 01:02:03:04:05:00
> 
> Traffic initiated localy flows prefectly through ngeth0 and xl0 
> interfaces, but
> this is not happen for traffic that comes from outside. It seems that 
> doesn't
> arrive to ngeth0 upper level protocols.

Haven't looked at the code, but I'm just wondering here... this MAC
address is a multicast address, not a unicast one. Should that work as
expected at all?

-- 
Dean C. Strik             Eindhoven University of Technology
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"This isn't right. This isn't even wrong." -- Wolfgang Pauli
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