| Message ID | 4A3B3C92.9050003@us.ibm.com |
|---|---|
| State | Not Applicable, archived |
| Delegated to: | David Miller |
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Hello Nivedita On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 9:21 AM, Nivedita Singhvi<niv@us.ibm.com> wrote: > Nivedita Singhvi wrote: >> >> This patch adds the IP_MULTICAST_ALL option to >> the ip.7 man page, to bring it up to date with >> 2.6.31 development. > > Ah, the "since" is intended to be inclusive. Yep ;-). > The > 2.6.30 needs to be 2.6.31. Correct version below. > Apologies! No worries. Glad you caught it. Some belated comments below. > Signed-off-by: Nivedita Singhvi <niv@us.ibm.com> > > --- > man7/ip.7 | 10 +++++++++- > 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/man7/ip.7 b/man7/ip.7 > index ab866a1..6932ba2 100644 > --- a/man7/ip.7 > +++ b/man7/ip.7 > @@ -357,7 +357,6 @@ and retrieve the MTU by calling > with the > .B IP_MTU > option. > - > It is possible to implement RFC 4821 MTU probing with > .B SOCK_DGRAM > or > @@ -383,6 +382,15 @@ When an invalid socket option is passed, > .B ENOPROTOOPT > is returned. > .TP > +.BR IP_MULTICAST_ALL " (since Linux 2.6.31)" > +Sets the multicast delivery policy to the socket. Argument is a boolean Is the following better here: Sets the policy for multicast delivery to the socket ? > +integer that enables or disables multicast delivery from all groups. > +If not set, delivery to the socket is restricted to data from those > multicast > +groups that have been explicitly subscribed to via a multicast join > operation > +for this socket. The default is 1 which means that a socket which is bound > +to the wildcard address (INADDR_ANY) will receive multicast packets from > all > +groups that have been subscribed to on this system. > +.TP > .BR IP_MULTICAST_LOOP " (since Linux 1.2)" Cheers, Michael
diff --git a/man7/ip.7 b/man7/ip.7 index ab866a1..6932ba2 100644 --- a/man7/ip.7 +++ b/man7/ip.7 @@ -357,7 +357,6 @@ and retrieve the MTU by calling with the .B IP_MTU option. - It is possible to implement RFC 4821 MTU probing with .B SOCK_DGRAM or @@ -383,6 +382,15 @@ When an invalid socket option is passed, .B ENOPROTOOPT is returned. .TP +.BR IP_MULTICAST_ALL " (since Linux 2.6.31)" +Sets the multicast delivery policy to the socket. Argument is a boolean +integer that enables or disables multicast delivery from all groups. +If not set, delivery to the socket is restricted to data from those multicast +groups that have been explicitly subscribed to via a multicast join operation +for this socket. The default is 1 which means that a socket which is bound +to the wildcard address (INADDR_ANY) will receive multicast packets from all +groups that have been subscribed to on this system. +.TP .BR IP_MULTICAST_LOOP " (since Linux 1.2)" Sets or reads a boolean integer argument that determines whether sent multicast packets should be looped back to the local sockets.