Re: Multicast and Masquerade clash

Andi Kleen (ak@muc.de)
Fri, 11 Dec 1998 06:50:17 +0100

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In muc.lists.linux-kernel, you wrote:
>A shortish term fix, which I don't like much since it puts some policy
>into the kernel, would be to make the demasquerade conditional on the
>stuff not being multicast. Multicast has a well defined address range set
>so detecting if the source/dest are multicast sets should be easy enough
>to do.

What happens if someone wants to masquerade multicast connections ?
I could imagine that masquerading multicast protocols is useful in
some circumstances.

-Andi

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