Re: v2.6 IGMPv3 implementation

[YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明]

In article <20040712203056.GI7822@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (at Mon, 12 Jul 2004 16:30:56 -0400), "Charles R. Anderson" <cra@xxxxxxx> says:

> /* Multicast source filter calls */
> #define SIOCSIPMSFILTER        0x89a0          /* set mcast src filter (ipv4) */
> #define SIOCGIPMSFILTER 0x89a1         /* get mcast src filter (ipv4) */
> #define SIOCSMSFILTER  0x89a2          /* set mcast src filter (proto indep) */
> #define SIOCGMSFILTER  0x89a3          /* get mcast src filter (proto indep) */
> 
> These do not appear in the Linus kernel, though.  Does anyone know the
> status of these ioctls and the IGMPv3 implementation in general?  I'm
> trying to get the proper bits stuffed into glibc to make IGMPv3/SSM
> usable, and I'm not sure what to do about these ioctls.  Should 4 new
> ioctl numbers be reserved for these in case an implementation is
> integrated, or should I just leave them out of glibc headers entirely?

These ioctls are "historic" and deprecated API.
So, just kill them to avoid confusion.
We use socket options.

Thanks.

Reference:
D. Thaler, B. Fenner and B. Quinn, "Socket Interface Extensions for 
Multicast Source Filters," RFC3678, January 2004.

--yoshfuji
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