From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: herbert@gondor.hengli.com.au
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: bridge: Only flood unregistered groups to routers
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 17:53:47 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110624.175347.1335501634665889751.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110623123912.GA29381@gondor.apana.org.au>
From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.hengli.com.au>
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 20:39:12 +0800
> bridge: Only flood traffic for unregistered groups to routers
>
> The bridge currently floods packets to groups that we have never
> seen before to all ports. This is not required by RFC4541 and
> in fact it is not desirable in environment where traffic to
> unregistered group is always present.
>
> This patch changes the behaviour so that we only send traffic
> to unregistered groups to ports marked as routers.
>
> The user can always force flooding behaviour to any given port
> by marking it as a router.
>
> Note that this change does not apply to traffic to 224.0.0.X
> as traffic to those groups must always be flooded to all ports.
>
> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Applied, thanks.
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2011-06-23 12:39 bridge: Only flood unregistered groups to routers Herbert Xu
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