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From: fenner@parc.xerox.com (Bill Fenner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 224.0.0.0 route
Date: 8 May 1995 05:30:14 GMT
Organization: Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
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In article <9505051224.AA28183@akela.src.honeywell.com>,
Matt Englehart <englehar@src.honeywell.com> wrote:
>Is [the route to 224.0.0.0] really needed for anything?

It is needed if you want to do multicast and

a) don't have a default route, or
b) want your default multicast interface to be different from your default
route's interface.

It's pretty important if you're going to do something like router discovery,
where you would want to send a multicast packet before establishing any
other routes.

  Bill