From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [0/3] bridge: Do not send multicast queries by default Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2012 12:50:23 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <20120415.125023.1717763086421927975.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20120413123641.GA758@gondor.apana.org.au> <20120413.105345.319552552748408545.davem@davemloft.net> <20120415111300.GA14147@gondor.apana.org.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: herbert@gondor.hengli.com.au Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([198.137.202.13]:37362 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755648Ab2DOQwZ (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Apr 2012 12:52:25 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20120415111300.GA14147@gondor.apana.org.au> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Herbert Xu Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2012 19:13:00 +0800 > However, we're not implementing an RFC2710 node here. What we're > doing is better described by RFC4541 (IGMP/MLD snooping), which calls > for the use of a zero source address for both IPv4 and IPv6. > > The reason is precisely because it's invalid for normal querier > nodes and as such they would ignore us (rather than elect us > and potentially disrupt things). Ok, make sense. And in fact, I welcome changing this back to using a zero saddr, as the ipv6 source address setting code brought in a lot of ugly dependencies. :-)