[Xorp-users] Questions on RIP

[Bruce Simpson]

Ben Greear wrote:
> ...
> Nevermind..I figured it out.  I was binding to a specific local IP
> instead of 0.0.0.0, which does not work for Multicast receive.
>
> Fixed by setting reuseaddr and binding to ANY instead.
>   

Yes, this is fairly typical behaviour. It's an artefact of the laddr / 
inpcb lookup in 4.4BSD derived TCP/IP stacks. I believe undirected 
broadcasts will see the same behaviour, although those are only needed 
for RIPv1 which XORP currently does not implement.

cheers,
BMS