On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 12:16:49PM +0100, Hugo Santos wrote: > > If you want the kernel to do the forwarding (mrd6 does it all in user- > > space I think), check > > http://clarinet.u-strasbg.fr/~hoerdt/linux_ipv6_mforwarding/ > > According to the web page, this code is now in the USAGI kernels. > > mrd6 includes a user-space forwarding implementation as the vanilla > kernel still doesn't include v6 mcast forwarding. This is a compromise > to support as many systems as possible. mrd6 will also support the BSD > api for mcast forwarding soon, thus enabling the use of the forwarding > code included in the latest USAGI kernels. > > > AFAIK there is no special support for scoping. But I think for PIM the > > issue is mainly to check scoping in PIM joins, and possibly also which > > addresses to accept PIM registers from (so that someone outside can't > > send registers to a local group). So I suppose these checks would be > > in the PIM implementation. So then it should be done in mrd6, pim6sd > > or whatever you're using for the routing. > > The latest mrd6 already supports this kind of configuration.
Great! What I forgot to mention, is that if you do BSR, then scoped BSR is also good, as well as being able to drop BSMs that exceed the scope at a scope boundary. Stig > > Hugo > --------------------------------------------------------------------- The IPv6 Users Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe users" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
