HEADS UP: IGMPv3/SSM: alpha code drop.

[Alexander Leidinger]

Quoting Bruce Simpson <bms at incunabulum.net> (from Wed, 04 Mar 2009  
11:49:03 +0000):

> Alexander Leidinger wrote:
>> ...
>> Is this supposed to make multicast work in a jail? In the past I  
>> tried some simple tests (e.g. mtest(8)), but I wasn't able to  
>> receive anything in a jail (this test was triggered by the fact,  
>> that some avahi-tools from the avahi port didn't showed an expected  
>> result).
>
> Not really, no, I have just been making my best guess here. I would  
> hope bz would join in once it's checked in -- as I understand it,  
> jails are a difficult case for multicast (and broadcast) sockets  
> because of how they change how address lookup works. Other than that  
> I have done no testing with jails.
>
> I believe the code will continue to work as-is, however others are  
> welcome to test and contribute once it's in.

Thanks for the info. I hope the vimage stuff will change this  
situation regardless of the fact if someone jumps in and makes the  
current stuff work or not.

Bye,
Alexander.

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