Subject: Re: multicast routing over vifs broken?
To: Greg Troxel <gdt@NetBSD.org>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
List: tech-net
Date: 07/26/2005 10:34:04
On Jul 26, 2005, at 10:28 AM, Greg Troxel wrote:

> Christine Jones of BBN found this, and when changed to ENCAP_PROTO
> packets are received on vifs.
>
> The code seems "clearly wrong by inspection", but given that it's been
> 4 years I wonder if we're somehow confused.  Has mrouted with vifs
> worked for anyone since May 2001?  Should I just change AF_INET to
> ENCAP_PROTO?

It's probably been broken, yes.

I really hate the whole vif thing.  It would be nice if there was a  
single code path for IP-IP tunnels.

-- thorpej