From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH] Multicast socket option Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:45:34 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20090602.004534.165425108.davem@davemloft.net> References: <4A1EC33E.1080201@us.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, dlstevens@us.ibm.com, cl@linux.com To: niv@us.ibm.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:41107 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757071AbZFBHpe (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Jun 2009 03:45:34 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4A1EC33E.1080201@us.ibm.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Nivedita Singhvi 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 > Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter > Acked-by: David Stevens Applied, thanks.