Andres M Perez wrote:

>I have a need to selectively block traffic to a multicast group which may have 
>multiple 
>subscribers on the same host.  I'd like to use IP Filter to block the 
>multicast traffic to 
>certain subscribers in the multicast group, but not others.  Subscribers are 
>in separate 
>non-global zones on the same host.
>
>Here is an example scenario:
>
>* One process running on host foo multicasting to 225.4.5.6 group
>     non-global zone bound to IP X
>
>* Two processes running on host bar subscribed to 225.4.5.6 multicast group
>     non-global zone bound to IP Y
>     non-global zone bound to IP Z
>
>Can I create a rule that blocks multicast packets sent by X from getting to Y 
>but allows 
>them to pass to Z?
>
>OS is Solaris 10 Update 4.  All processes are running on separate non-global 
>zones.  For 
>technical reasons stemming from our use of VLANs, we can't make use of 
>exclusive IP zones 
>and filtering is done in the global zone.
>
>Can the (undocumented) multicast option type help here? My feeling is no, 
>but...
>  
>

No, I don't believe what you want to do can currently be done.

Darren

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