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Revision 1.93.4.1 / (download) - annotate - [select for diffs], Mon Nov 15 00:42:13 1999 UTC (13 years, 6 months ago) by fvdl
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Revision 1.93 / (download) - annotate - [select for diffs], Sun Oct 17 16:00:00 1999 UTC (13 years, 7 months ago) by sommerfeld
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In ip_forward():

Avoid forwarding ip unicast packets which were contained inside
link-level multicast packets; having M_MCAST still set in the packet
header flags will mean that the packet will get multicast to a bogus
group instead of unicast to the next hop.

Malformed packets like this have occasionally been spotted "in the
wild" on a mediaone cable modem segment which also had multiple netbsd
machines running as router/NAT boxes.

Without this, any subnet with multiple netbsd routers receiving all
multicasts will generate a packet storm on receipt of such a
multicast.  Note that we already do the same check here for link-level
broadcasts; ip6_forward already does this as well.

Note that multicast forwarding does not go through ip_forward().

Adding some code to if_ethersubr to sanity check link-level
vs. ip-level multicast addresses might also be worthwhile.

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