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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Subject: Re: [BUG] bd4265fe36 bridge: Only flood unreg groups... breaks DHCP
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Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2011 22:06:36 -0700
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On Tue, 05 Jul 2011 18:40:44 -0700 (PDT)
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:

> From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.hengli.com.au>
> Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 07:58:33 +0800
> 
> > bridge: Always flood broadcast packets
> > 
> > As is_multicast_ether_addr returns true on broadcast packets as
> > well, we need to explicitly exclude broadcast packets so that
> > they're always flooded.  This wasn't an issue before as broadcast
> > packets were considered to be an unregistered multicast group,
> > which were always flooded.  However, as we now only flood such
> > packets to router ports, this is no longer acceptable.
> > 
> > Reported-by: Michael Guntsche <mike@it-loops.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
> 
> Applied.

Obviously needs to go to stable as well.