: Whether or not Linux's flavor of PPP will accept/send
: 'Multicast packets', is another Question.
gated cannot use multicasting on pointopoint interfaces in Linux.
Depending on tastes, it can be considered as Linux bug
or BSD bug. I prefer to consider it as BSD API bug 8-)
Workaround:
If all pointopoint interfaces have unique addresses,
change line in task.c (gated source tree):
mreq.imr_interface = sock2in(ifap->ifa_addr); /* struct copy */
with
mreq.imr_interface = sock2in(ifap->ifa_addr_local); /* struct copy */
Alexey Kuznetsov.