From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [RFC] macvlan: proper multicast support Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 02:56:34 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20090427.025634.54725702.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20090423091425.73ed544c@s6510> <49F1D5EF.3020306@trash.net> <20090424094808.74d401d8@nehalam> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kaber@trash.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: shemminger@vyatta.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:46670 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757595AbZD0J4l (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Apr 2009 05:56:41 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20090424094808.74d401d8@nehalam> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Stephen Hemminger Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:48:08 -0700 > When using macvlan's multicast packets don't get properly passed between > macvlan's which should be logically sharing the network. Any multicast > packet sent on a macvlan should show up lower device and all other macvlan's. > Likewise a multicast packet sent on lower device should be received > by all macvlan's. > > The following is one way to do it; build tested only. > > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger I definitely want to see what Patrick thinks of this.