From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [AF_PACKET]: Allow multicast traffic to be caught by ORIGDEV when bonded
Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 02:21:16 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071107.022116.16986000.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071106152547.14672.10821.stgit@localhost.localdomain>
From: PJ Waskiewicz <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 07:25:47 -0800
> The socket option for packet sockets to return the original ifindex instead
> of the bonded ifindex will not match multicast traffic. Since this socket
> option is the most useful for layer 2 traffic and multicast traffic, make
> the option multicast-aware.
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>
I agree with you in principle, but I'd like to hear some feedback
from other folks. In particular I'd like a discussion about
what this might break, if anything.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-07 10:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-06 15:25 [PATCH] [AF_PACKET]: Allow multicast traffic to be caught by ORIGDEV when bonded PJ Waskiewicz
2007-11-07 10:21 ` David Miller [this message]
2007-11-07 11:00 ` Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P
2007-11-07 11:52 ` David Miller
2007-11-07 17:40 ` Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P
2007-11-11 6:03 ` David Miller
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