From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Henrik Nordstrom Subject: Re: TTL patch buggy? Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 21:54:05 +0100 (CET) Sender: netfilter-devel-admin@lists.netfilter.org Message-ID: References: <20040107211951.GC20346@cannon.eng.us.uu.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Harald Welte , "John A. Sullivan III" , , Return-path: To: Ramin Dousti In-Reply-To: <20040107211951.GC20346@cannon.eng.us.uu.net> Errors-To: netfilter-devel-admin@lists.netfilter.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Id: netfilter-devel.vger.kernel.org On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Ramin Dousti wrote: > Can you explain (b) a bit more, Harald? Multicast traffic is being > dealt with by the routers in exactly the same way as the unicast > traffic with regards to the TTL (as far as I understand it). Yes, but the difference is that multicast does actually use the ttl to limit the scope of how wide the traffic is distributed, as opposed to most other protocols just using the ttl to kill forwarding loops. Regards Henrik From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Henrik Nordstrom Subject: Re: TTL patch buggy? Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 21:54:05 +0100 (CET) Sender: netfilter-devel-admin@lists.netfilter.org Message-ID: References: <20040107211951.GC20346@cannon.eng.us.uu.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20040107211951.GC20346@cannon.eng.us.uu.net> Errors-To: netfilter-devel-admin@lists.netfilter.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Ramin Dousti Cc: Harald Welte , "John A. Sullivan III" , netfilter@lists.netfilter.org, netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Ramin Dousti wrote: > Can you explain (b) a bit more, Harald? Multicast traffic is being > dealt with by the routers in exactly the same way as the unicast > traffic with regards to the TTL (as far as I understand it). Yes, but the difference is that multicast does actually use the ttl to limit the scope of how wide the traffic is distributed, as opposed to most other protocols just using the ttl to kill forwarding loops. Regards Henrik