multicast transmission (was: CARP broken on -CURRENT?)

[Li, Qing]

The problem appears to be contained in ether_output().
A slightly modified version of Xin's patch has been committed.
Please sync to r195921.

Please let us know if the patch resolves your issues and report
new problems if any.

Thanks,

-- Qing


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-current at freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-
> current at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Xin LI
> Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 9:49 PM
> To: Ian FREISLICH
> Cc: FreeBSD Current; d at delphij.net
> Subject: Re: CARP broken on -CURRENT?
> 
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> I got it.  It was the cached llentry that preventing ether_output() to
> choose the right broadcast/multicast address and use the default
> gateway's L2 address.  Here is a proposed patch.
> 
> Cheers,
> - --
> Xin LI <delphij at delphij.net>	http://www.delphij.net/
> FreeBSD - The Power to Serve!
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