From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, dlstevens@us.ibm.com, cl@linux.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Multicast socket option
Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:45:34 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090602.004534.165425108.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A1EC33E.1080201@us.ibm.com>
From: Nivedita Singhvi <niv@us.ibm.com>
Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 10:00:46 -0700
> After some discussion offline with Christoph Lameter and David Stevens
> regarding multicast behaviour in Linux, I'm submitting a slightly
> modified patch from the one Christoph submitted earlier.
>
> This patch provides a new socket option IP_MULTICAST_ALL.
>
> In this case, default behaviour is _unchanged_ from the current
> Linux standard. The socket option is set by default to provide
> original behaviour. Sockets wishing to receive data only from
> multicast groups they join explicitly will need to clear this socket
> option.
>
>
> Signed-off-by: Nivedita Singhvi <niv@us.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter<cl@linux.com>
> Acked-by: David Stevens <dlstevens@us.ibm.com>
Applied, thanks.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-02 7:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-28 17:00 [PATCH] Multicast socket option Nivedita Singhvi
2009-05-29 6:25 ` Rémi Denis-Courmont
2009-05-29 14:21 ` Nivedita Singhvi
2009-05-29 10:35 ` Neil Horman
2009-05-29 14:12 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-05-29 15:06 ` Nivedita Singhvi
2009-06-02 7:45 ` David Miller [this message]
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