Re: [PATCH] make ipv4 multicast packets only get delivered to sockets thatare joined to group

From: David Stevens
Date: Wed Sep 13 2006 - 16:42:29 EST


Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 09/13/2006 01:20:29 PM:

> Hello!
>
> > IPv6 behaves the same way.
>
> Actually, Linux IPv6 filters received multicasts, inet6_mc_check() does
> this.

No, it returns 1 (allow) if there are no filters to explicitly
filter it. I wrote that code. :-)
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