Interest in adding multicast support to Wireguard?

Derrick Lyndon Pallas derrick at pallas.us
Tue Sep 22 22:26:01 CEST 2020


On 9/22/20 12:38 PM, Reid Rankin wrote:

> While I'm all for multicast support, I don't think this is it. TunSafe
> only has that option to allow you to turn off an extra anti-multicast
> filter that's on by default and drops anything incoming from ff00::/8
> or 224.0.0./3, even if it's from a peer with those ranges in its
> AllowedIPs. (Actually, 224.0.0.0/3 is technically the wrong range for
> IPv4 multicast; that's 224.0.0.0/4. The upper half of that space,
> 240.0.0.0/4, has been "reserved for future addressing modes" since
> 1989.)
Yes, I also agree that all-or-nothing is not the right answer. I'm only 
pointing out that multicast has been implemented in at least one client. 
~Derrick


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