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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Subject: Re: bridge should flood non-IPv4-multicast ethernet frames
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 14:14:03 -0700
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On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:00:27 -0400
Chuck Anderson <cra@WPI.EDU> wrote:

> 2. Check that the Ethertype is 0x800 (IPv4), and if it is not, always
> flood the frame so we don't break non-IPv6-multicast frames being
> bridged.

Doing something based on Ether type is the correct solution.
It should handle ipv4 and ipv6 snooping and flood all other types.