On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 13:03 -0400, Peter Memishian wrote:
> > Yep, thanks.  I've made the changes, and another change that followed
> > from our discussion on broadcast handling.  Basically, what we agreed
> > upon was: because broadcast are locally looped back, we should be able
> > to see them on output.  My code previously restricted the observability
> > to input only unless DL_PROMISC_PHYS was enabled.  The additional change
> > I made is related to multicast, in that there is equivalent looping back
> > of multicast within IP for applications that want to receive multicast
> > packets sent by other applications in the local stack.
> > 
> > The result is:
> > 
> > http://zhadum.east.sun.com/ws/seb/seb-ipobs/webrev.accept-2/
> 
> So with the change for multicast, what does IPNETALLMULTI mean?

It's not used anywhere, so it can be removed.

> Also, seems like the difference between IPNETADDR_MCAST and
> IPNETADDR_BCAST is no longer important.

Indeed, I've accelerated their particles and smashed them together to
form IPNETADDR_MBCAST.

> 
> Nit: s/traffix/traffic/

Sure, traffix is the plural of traffic. ;-)

webrev updated.

Thanks,
-Seb



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