This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.
endian-ness fix, Router Alert options on IGMP messages, and a
new keyword, "advert_metric", for fine-tuning tunnel metrics.
This also includes a new mtrace, which is also unreleased but
builds significantly on the experiences of users' troubles with
using and understanding mtrace in release 3.8 .
(unreleased does not, of course, mean untested!)
This is a candidate for both 2.2 and 2.1.6 .
This will make FreeBSD boxes better behaved 'MBONE Citizens', based on
a couple of the comments about the severity of fixes..
Agreed to by: wollman, fenner@parc.xerox.com
mrouted-3.5n. This is being splatted onto the head rather than properly
imported thanks to the ``delete trailing whitespace'' screw. This code is
now actively working in an operational environment (the DARTNET) so I
have some confidence that the basic functionality actually works.
Obtained from: Bill Fenner, PARC, and ISI
in the mrouted. inet_parse returns network byte ordered address, but there
are a couple comaprisons that need to be done on the addresses and the
comparisons are done in host order. I left the comparisions for 0xffffffff
alone, because this value is the same in network and host orders.
Submitted by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu>