patch-2.1.22 linux/net/core/dev_mcast.c

• Lines: 14
• Date: Sun Jan 19 15:47:27 1997
• Orig file: v2.1.21/linux/net/core/dev_mcast.c
• Orig date: Thu Jan 2 15:55:26 1997

diff -u --recursive --new-file v2.1.21/linux/net/core/dev_mcast.c linux/net/core/dev_mcast.c
@@ -72,7 +72,12 @@
 	/*
 	 *	An aliased device should end up with the combined
 	 *	multicast list of all its aliases. 
-	 *	[Check this is still ok -AC]
+	 *	Really, multicasting with logical interfaces is very
+	 *	subtle question. Now we DO forward multicast packets
+	 *	to logical interfcases, that doubles multicast
+	 *	traffic but allows mrouted to work.
+	 *	Alas, mrouted does not understand aliases even
+	 *	in 4.4BSD --ANK
 	 */
 	 
 	dev = net_alias_main_dev(dev);