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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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20kdc 2017-03-20 16:20:52 +00:00
parent 8e8b3f650d
commit 9df9823a4f

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@ -17,8 +17,13 @@ If it's on the child side, reject if it's prefixed with "<",
If it's on the parent side, reject unless prefixed with hostname .. "/",
otherwise remove that.
(Optionally, if the name is "*", bypass this rule completely.
This is not recommended, though, as this allows sending a "complete broadcast packet" via "[some amount of <]*".)
If it's on the child side, reject unless prefixed with "<",
otherwise remove that.
(Optionally, if the name is "<*", reject anyway.
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.)
For the packet's general routing: