Re: [Fwd: Re: [PATCH] Multicast packet reassembly can fail]

[Steve Chen <schen@mvista.com>]

On Wed, 2009-10-28 at 13:22 -0700, David Stevens wrote:
> netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org wrote on 10/28/2009 11:25:39 AM:
> 
> > I see the point you are making.  I assumed, probably incorrectly, that
> > since eth0 and eth1 have different IP address.  I would get a complete
> > series of fragments for each interface.  Perhaps, I should really be
> > looking up the stack to see why packets were dropped.  Please correct me
> > if I'm mistaken.  The normal behavior is that application should be
> > receiving either 2 (scenario 1) or 1 (scenario 2) packets.
> 
> Steve,
>         If you didn't join the group on both interfaces, you won't receive
> two copies in the first place; the unjoined NIC won't deliver anything
> up the stack that isn't in it's multicast address filter.
> 
>  +-DLS

Thanks for the inputs.  I'll revisit the issue.

Steve