From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: [PATCH] bridge: mask forwarding of IEEE 802 local multicast groups Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 08:27:55 -0700 Message-ID: <20110711082755.0b38a15a@nehalam.ftrdhcpuser.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, =?UTF-8?B?TWljaGHFgiBNaXJvc8WCYXc=?= , David Lamparter , davem@davemloft.net To: Nick Carter Return-path: Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:38379 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757833Ab1GKP2s (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jul 2011 11:28:48 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 17:04:30 +0100 Nick Carter wrote: > Updated diffs so they apply to net-next (Original diffs were based off 2.6.38). > > Any chance of getting these diffs applied? The default behaviour of > the bridge code is unchanged. They solve the problem of > authenticating a virtual 802.1x supplicant machine against an external > 802.1X authenticator. It is also a general solution that allows the > forwarding of any combination of the IEEE 802 local multicast groups. > > Signed-off-by: Nick Carter > Reviewed-by: David Lamparter I am still undecided on this. Understand the need, but don't like idea of bridge behaving in non-conforming manner. Will see if IEEE 802 committee has any input. Also, don't want to build more knobs in with sysfs that are per-bridge. Eventually, the plan is to make all the setting per-port with sysctl's like IPv6.