On 07 Apr 2005 10:29:07 -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: >"Martin Petraschek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> The section you are referencing in RFC 2463 is concerning ICMP >> ERROR messages. Echo requests/responses are informational >> messages, therefore this section does not apply. > >Ah. You're right; I was thinking about error handling because that's >the code I happened to be working with this morning. I was looking at >the error handling code, as well, so when I said it was impossible I >may have been wrong also. [The ICMP6_ECHO_REQUEST handling in >icmp6_input() doesn't do any special handling for multicast at all, so >I don't see why it doesn't Just Work.] > >Sorry for not paying enough attention to the question.
No problem. Anyway, because of your reply I double checked my setup and found out that FreeBSD does indeed answer to multicast ping requests. There just does not seem to be a sysctl switch to turn off this behaviour (as there is for IPv4). Thank you, Martin _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"