From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: Multicast snooping fixes and suggestions Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 10:08:06 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20110222.100806.71122067.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1297811961-19249-1-git-send-email-linus.luessing@web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: shemminger@linux-foundation.org, bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au To: linus.luessing@web.de Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1297811961-19249-1-git-send-email-linus.luessing@web.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org =46rom: Linus L=FCssing Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 00:19:16 +0100 > While testing the (very awesome!) bridge igmp/mld snooping support I = came across > two issues which are breaking IPv6 multicast snooping and IPv6 > non-link-local multicast on bridges with multicast snooping support e= nabled > in general. The first two patches shall fix these issues. >=20 > The third one addresses a potential bug on little endian machines whi= ch I noticed > during this little code reviewing. This patch is untested though, fee= dback welcome. >=20 > The fourth and fifth patch are a suggestion to also permit using the = bridge multicast > snooping feature for link local multimedia multicast traffic. Therefo= re > using the transient multicast flag instead of the non-link-local scop= e criteria > seems to be a suitable solution at least for IPv6, in my opinion. Let= me know what > you think about it. >=20 > Thanks for reviewing these patches. Nice work, all applied to net-2.6, thanks!