Re: SIOCADDMULTI for unicast broken

[Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx>]

jamal wrote:
> Some programs require ability to accept packets destined to certain
> MAC addresses (in addition to their own).
> Example Jerome Ettienes vrrpd (http://w3.arobas.net/~jetienne/vrrpd/)
>
> The trick is to add unicast addresses via SIOCADDMULTI and accept those
> packets when they make their way up the stack.
> I think this used to work, no? Donald, any history/comments behind
> this?

Over and above Donald's comments, from an interface perspective I think 
this is a bit of a hack, don't you?  :)  Calling an "add-multi" ioctl 
should do precisely that... and only that :)