From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: David Stevens <dlstevens@us.ibm.com>
Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: sysctl variable to force IGMP version [PATCH]
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 12:00:03 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040128120003.0d5f3df2.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OF3A5A0537.DEF35E29-ON88256E28.0073EBFF@us.ibm.com>
On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 14:13:41 -0700
David Stevens <dlstevens@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> Below is a patch that allows forcing of the IGMP version. The primary
> use would be with an IGMP-snooping switch that doesn't grok IGMPv3
> packet formats and when there are no IGMPv2 or IGMPv1 multicast
> routers on the network. By forcing the IGMP reports to version 2 (or
> version 1, for really old switches), Linux would send reports that the
> switch can understand for multicast forwarding to the port.
Perhaps some sanity to prevent values other than 1 or 2 from being
set?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-28 20:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-27 21:13 sysctl variable to force IGMP version [PATCH] David Stevens
2004-01-28 20:00 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2004-02-13 4:50 ` Takashi Hibi
2004-02-13 18:31 ` David Stevens
2004-02-14 0:15 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2004-02-14 13:10 ` Yuji Sekiya
2004-02-17 5:14 ` sysctl variable to force MLD " David Stevens
2004-02-17 6:52 ` David S. Miller
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-01-29 4:51 sysctl variable to force IGMP " David Stevens
2004-01-29 22:36 ` David S. Miller
2004-01-30 20:49 David Stevens
2004-01-30 20:52 ` David S. Miller
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