From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.hengli.com.au>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Linus Lüssing" <linus.luessing@web.de>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [Bridge] Multicast snooping fixes and suggestions
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 12:04:12 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110224040412.GA25488@gondor.apana.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D65CD81.4070203@zytor.com>
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 07:16:17PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
> Are these packets likely to address that situation (or am I just plain
> doing something stupid)?
No these patches deal with IPv6 multicast support in the bridge and
are not related to your problem.
If you're using the bridge for virtualisation and you know that
you don't have a loop in your setup, then one option would be to
disable STP on your bridge.
Cheers,
--
Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-24 4:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-15 23:19 [Bridge] Multicast snooping fixes and suggestions Linus Lüssing
2011-02-15 23:19 ` [Bridge] [PATCH 1/5] bridge: Fix IPv6 multicast snooping by storing correct protocol type Linus Lüssing
2011-02-15 23:19 ` [Bridge] [PATCH 2/5] bridge: Fix IPv6 multicast snooping by correcting offset in MLDv2 report Linus Lüssing
2011-02-15 23:19 ` [Bridge] [PATCH 3/5] bridge: Add missing ntohs()s for MLDv2 report parsing Linus Lüssing
2011-02-15 23:19 ` [Bridge] [PATCH 4/5] ipv6: Add IPv6 multicast address flag defines Linus Lüssing
2011-02-15 23:19 ` [Bridge] [PATCH 5/5] bridge: Allow mcast snooping for transient link local addresses too Linus Lüssing
2011-02-15 23:41 ` [Bridge] Multicast snooping fixes and suggestions Stephen Hemminger
2011-02-17 18:17 ` Linus Lüssing
2011-02-17 18:17 ` [Bridge] [PATCH 1/2] bridge: Fix MLD queries' ethernet source address Linus Lüssing
2011-02-22 18:08 ` David Miller
2011-02-17 18:17 ` [Bridge] [PATCH 2/2] bridge: Use IPv6 link-local address for multicast listener queries Linus Lüssing
2011-02-22 18:08 ` David Miller
2011-02-22 18:08 ` [Bridge] Multicast snooping fixes and suggestions David Miller
2011-02-24 3:16 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-02-24 4:04 ` Herbert Xu [this message]
2011-02-24 4:46 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-02-24 5:42 ` Herbert Xu
2011-02-24 5:57 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-02-24 6:37 ` Stephen Hemminger
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