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Clarify possibilities of interaction between broadcast packets and hierarchial gateways.
The implementation in the oc/ subfolder of a hierarchial gateway goes with the "allow subnets to cause higher-level broadcasts, and allow higher levels to cause subnet broadcasts, but don't let messages leak" solution That is, the default if hierarchial gateways have no special handling for broadcast addresses.
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@ -17,8 +17,13 @@ If it's on the child side, reject if it's prefixed with "<",
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If it's on the parent side, reject unless prefixed with hostname .. "/",
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otherwise remove that.
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(Optionally, if the name is "*", bypass this rule completely.
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This is not recommended, though, as this allows sending a "complete broadcast packet" via "[some amount of <]*".)
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If it's on the child side, reject unless prefixed with "<",
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otherwise remove that.
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(Optionally, if the name is "<*", reject anyway.
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This is a measure which you may or may not wish to take - if the above 'complete broadcast' possibility has been implemented, then it is a must.)
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For the packet's general routing:
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