Re: [PATCH] mac80211: use recent multicast table for all mesh multicast frames, not only broadcast

[Luis Carlos Cobo <luisca@cozybit.com>]

On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 14:00 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> Seems appropriate but I haven't checked the spec.

=EF=BB=BFThis was a bug, it was meant to be multicast from the begginin=
g.
Otherwise if a mesh node transmits a multicast (non-broadcast) frame an=
d
there are N mesh peers around it, it is going to be retransmitted
N^MESH_TTL times.


> On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 15:33 -0700, Luis Carlos Cobo wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Luis Carlos Cobo <luisca@cozybit.com>
> > ---
> >  net/mac80211/rx.c |    2 +-
> >  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> >=20
> > diff --git a/net/mac80211/rx.c b/net/mac80211/rx.c
> > index d9c6ed5..0ac6db5 100644
> > --- a/net/mac80211/rx.c
> > +++ b/net/mac80211/rx.c
> > @@ -433,7 +433,7 @@ ieee80211_rx_mesh_check(struct ieee80211_rx_dat=
a *rx)
> >  		}
> > =20
> >  	 } else if ((rx->fc & IEEE80211_FCTL_FTYPE) =3D=3D IEEE80211_FTYP=
E_DATA &&
> > -		    is_broadcast_ether_addr(hdr->addr1) &&
> > +		    is_multicast_ether_addr(hdr->addr1) &&
> >  		    mesh_rmc_check(hdr->addr4, msh_h_get(hdr, hdrlen), rx->dev))
> >  		return RX_DROP_MONITOR;
> >  #undef msh_h_get

--=20
Luis Carlos Cobo Rus       GnuPG ID: 44019B60
cozybit Inc.


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