Re: [Qemu-devel] [PER] Re: socket, mcast looping back frames -> IPv6 broken

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 02:15:25PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Stefan Hajnoczi, le Wed 06 Mar 2013 13:29:37 +0100, a écrit :
> > On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 05:35:10PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Unfortunately net/socket.c does not have the concept of a link-layer
> > address, so we cannot easily filter out multicast packets coming from
> > our NIC's address.
> > 
> > Are you aware of a way to filter out just the packets sent by *this*
> > process?
> 
> I haven't seen any in the Linux source code.  One thing that should
> work, however, is to use recvfrom, and drop whatever comes from our
> sockname.

Sounds like a plan :).

Stefan