From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Mike Manning <mmanning@brocade.com>
Cc: <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: bridge: suppress broadcast when multicast flood is disabled
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2017 12:00:35 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170424120035.053b0a28@xeon-e3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1493042944-4005-1-git-send-email-mmanning@brocade.com>
On Mon, 24 Apr 2017 15:09:04 +0100
Mike Manning <mmanning@brocade.com> wrote:
> Flood suppression for packets that are not unicast needs to be handled
> consistently by also not flooding broadcast packets. As broadcast is a
> special case of multicast, the same kernel parameter should be used to
> suppress flooding for both of these packet types.
>
> Fixes: b6cb5ac8331b ("net: bridge: add per-port multicast flood flag")
> Cc: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>
> Signed-off-by: Mike Manning <mmanning@brocade.com>
> ---
Makes sense.
Reviewed-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-04-24 19:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-24 14:09 [PATCH] net: bridge: suppress broadcast when multicast flood is disabled Mike Manning
2017-04-24 19:00 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2017-04-24 19:52 ` Nikolay Aleksandrov
2017-04-25 13:32 ` Mike Manning
2017-04-25 14:03 ` Nikolay Aleksandrov
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