Re: Difference between vlan pseudo interfaces and physical interfaces?

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 10:50:53PM +0200, Hauke Fath wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Sep 2020 18:25:50 +0200, Hauke Fath wrote:
> >  19528      1 atalkd   RET   ioctl -1 errno 49 Can't assign requested 
> > address
> 
> This is actually a red herring: atalkd basically checks if the 
> configured network interface supports appletalk, all errors but ENODEV 
> are ignored here.
> 
> The actual failure happens during multicast setup, where an appletalk 
> datagram socket is created, and the ioctl SIOCADDMULTI on it fails.
> 
> Are vlans supposed to work with multicast, identically to physical 
> interfaces?

Yes. I do use mdnsd in such a setup, for example.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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