Re: Subnet 224.0.0.0/4
On Mon, Jan 17, 2000 at 01:23:13PM +0100, Michael Meskes wrote:
> Could anyone please tell me what's so special on this subnet that ipmasq
> allows icmp and udp output to it? It's the only hard coded subnet I found in
> this package.
It's the reserved subnet for multicast traffic. TCP does not function
over multicast, therefore it's not allowed through the filter.
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