On 24 Oct, Cathryn Mataga wrote:
> Would it be like a kernel compile time thing? Or like a setsockopt type of
>mechanism
> so each broadcast socket would have a different callsign? What's the application or
> bug fix you have in mind for this? (That is configurable callsigns for ip broadcast
>packets.)
For consistency you'd want it configurable with a tool like ifconfig or
axparms maybe.
> More interesting to me, is what happens if we turn on the MULTICAST flag with the
> ax25 driver. Me, I'm not even sure exactly how to test MULTICAST, but I was thinking
> that maybe, it might be fun to have some kind of HAMBONE (like M-bone) with news
>messages
> or maybe audio or something.
Same deal. Configurable multicast address would be nice. I think many
ethernet drivers already support configurable multicast addresses, so
we probably wouldn't have to break anything too much to implement it.
regards
Terry
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