Re: [PATCH] IPv6 multicast routing

In article [ref] (at Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:02:48 -0800), Tom Goff [off-list ref] says:

This patch addresses the IPv6 multicast routing issues described
below.  It was tested with XORP 1.4/1.5 as the IPv6 PIM-SM routing
daemon against FreeBSD peers.

:

  - Enable/disable IPv6 multicast forwarding on the corresponding
    interface when a routing daemon adds/removes a multicast virtual
    interface.

Thank you for tha patch!

However, I believe configuring forwarding is user's responsibility
and I'm not in favor of managing mc_forwarding automatically.

If we go your way, we need to make the proc interface read-only, but
you know, they will become non-"conf" interface. :-(
And, well, we will introduce another possible overflow/underflow here...

Another thought was to allow non-VIF routing settings (or manual settings).

So, I decided to drop that bits.


Other fixes seem okay.

--yoshfuji