# Re: AF\_BUS socket address family

- From: Alan Cox \<hidden\>
- Date: 2012-07-01 14:13:04 
- List: netdev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/netdev/2012/07/3887186
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/netdev/2012/06/3886804/t.md

```text
> The issue is that what to do when a receiver goes deaf is a policy
> issue.

Something all these protocols alredy recognize and have done for years.
The real issue for AF_BUS versus the current slow AF_UNIX approach is
that you really need to know *who* is blocked up.

That's no different to UDP multicast and needing to know how errored the
frame.

Alan
```