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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
To: Nick Carter <ncarter100@gmail.com>
Cc: Ed Swierk <eswierk@bigswitch.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, David Lamparter <equinox@diac24.net>,
	bridge@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] bridge: allow passing link-local multicast
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 08:10:19 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110818081019.4b9bb79e@nehalam.ftrdhcpuser.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEJpZP0fOydMMbgquAud7dfwcO28BXAMzAwnMjSZO6TvEjxgpQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 16:06:19 +0100
Nick Carter <ncarter100@gmail.com> wrote:

> Why can't we use the 802.1D specified STP group address to identify ?
> The existing code uses that address.
> I know you said on another thread that there are people using other addresses.
> Who are these people ?
> Are they following any standard ?
> What address / address range are they using ?

The group address can be reprogrammed, and it is settable on other
routing equipment. People do it to create spanning tree domains.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-08-18 15:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CAF5U64C+WgQhfJL3zfVnvzE7p=G61humQCObHGUxAvY2-MGAFQ@mail.gmail.com>
2011-08-12 22:37 ` [PATCH] bridge: mask forwarding of IEEE 802 local multicast groups Ed Swierk
2011-08-12 22:45   ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-08-13  5:43     ` Ed Swierk
2011-08-15 22:05       ` [RFC] bridge: allow passing link-local multicast Stephen Hemminger
2011-08-18 15:06         ` Nick Carter
2011-08-18 15:10           ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2011-08-18 15:52             ` Nick Carter
2011-08-18 16:39               ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-08-19  2:27                 ` David Lamparter
2011-08-19 20:58                   ` [RFC] bridge: add netfilter hook for forwarding 802.1D group addresses Stephen Hemminger
2011-08-19 22:18                     ` Christian Benvenuti (benve)
2011-08-19 22:24                       ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-08-20 15:31                     ` Bart De Schuymer
2011-08-22 13:59                     ` David Lamparter

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