Re: [PATCH] make ipv4 multicast packets only get delivered tosockets that are joined to group

[David Miller]

From: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 12:12:23 -0400

> Most of the RFC's I've looked at don't seem to have much to say about
> how multicasting works at the socket level. Is there an RFC or
> specification that spells this out, or is this one of those situations
> where things are somewhat open to interpretation?

In these cases, whatever BSD does is effectively the definition of
what should happen since it is the "BSD socket API".
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