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Fix ip_output() on point-to-point links
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Authored by rstone on Oct 20 2016, 6:29 PM.
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In r304435, ip_output() was changed to use the result of the route
lookup to decide whether the outgoing packet was a broadcast or
not. This introduced a regression on interfaces where
IFF_BROADCAST was not set (e.g. point-to-point links), as the
algorithm could incorrectly treat the destination address as a
broadcast address, and ip_output() would subsequently drop the
packet as broadcasting on a non-IFF_BROADCAST interface is not
allowed.

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rstone retitled this revision from to Fix ip_output() on point-to-point links.
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This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Oct 20 2016, 6:53 PM
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