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From: Derrick Lyndon Pallas <derrick@pallas.us>
To: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Cc: WireGuard mailing list <wireguard@lists.zx2c4.com>
Subject: Re: Interest in adding multicast support to Wireguard?
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2020 08:17:37 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e5031f21-01ee-d3f1-fc27-4140fc1da363@pallas.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHmME9rU3AhppjN+6OM8vYHHbpK1Fxj2chVCCyHQBL-XvKk2uA@mail.gmail.com>

On 9/21/20 4:24 AM, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:

> We've discussed this extensively and repeatedly. I made a few
> proposals a few years ago that we discussed. It doesn't fit into
> WireGuard's strong binding model.
>
> Jason

As I mentioned, I looked through the archives before starting this 
thread. Specifically, I looked for mentions of multicast and followed 
the threads, but I didn't find a concrete resolution. Maybe I missed 
something.

I understand the theoretical argument. However, the practical 
implication is that a widely deployed discovery mechanism on at least 
one very population hardware platform is hamstrung without jumping 
through pretty significant accounting hoops.

Given the other responses to this thread, it sounds like there is 
interest in an opt-in feature but that a pull request would likely not 
be accepted. Have I misunderstood?

~Derrick



  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-09-21 15:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-21  7:13 Derrick Lyndon Pallas
2020-09-21  9:57 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-09-21 15:16   ` Derrick Lyndon Pallas
2020-09-21 11:17 ` AW: " Florian Werner
2020-09-21 15:16   ` Derrick Lyndon Pallas
2020-09-21 11:24 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2020-09-21 15:04   ` Reid Rankin
2020-09-21 15:16     ` Derrick Lyndon Pallas
2020-09-22 18:54       ` Derrick Lyndon Pallas
2020-09-22 19:38         ` Reid Rankin
2020-09-22 20:26           ` Derrick Lyndon Pallas
2020-09-21 15:17   ` Derrick Lyndon Pallas [this message]
2020-09-27 17:50 ` Derek Fawcus

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