From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] IGMP: Inhibit reports for local multicast groups - DOCUMENT Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 12:30:52 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20150831.123052.2026420716334269701.davem@davemloft.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: cwang@twopensource.com, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, jmorris@namei.org, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, kaber@trash.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: pdowney@brocade.com Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: Philip Downey Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 11:30:38 +0100 > Document the addition of a new sysctl variable which controls the > generation of IGMP reports for link local multicast groups in the > 224.0.0.X range. > > IGMP reports for local multicast groups can now be optionally > inhibited by setting the value to zero e.g.: > echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/igmp_link_local_mcast_reports > > To retain backwards compatibility the previous behaviour is retained > by default on system boot or reverted by setting the value back to > non-zero. > > Signed-off-by: Philip Downey Applied, thanks.