From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [patch 2.6.14-rc2] bonding: replicate IGMP traffic in activebackup mode Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 07:58:39 -0400 Message-ID: <43426E6F.60500@pobox.com> References: <09282005175053.11150@bilbo.tuxdriver.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, bonding-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, ctindel@users.sourceforge.net, fubar@us.ibm.com Return-path: To: "John W. Linville" In-Reply-To: <09282005175053.11150@bilbo.tuxdriver.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org John W. Linville wrote: > Replicate IGMP frames across all slaves in activebackup mode. This > ensures fail-over is rapid for multicast traffic as well. Otherwise, > multicast traffic will be lost until the next IGMP membership report > poll timeout. > > Signed-off-by: John W. Linville > --- > This is conceptually similar to the treatment of IGMP traffic in > bond_alb_xmit. In that case, IGMP traffic transmitted on any slave > is re-routed to the active slave in order to ensure that multicast > traffic continues to be directed to the active receiver. > > drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c | 53 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- > 1 files changed, 51 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) Applied. For future patches, please * don't include description following the signed-off-by line * if you are willing to special-case me, I actually don't like seeing a diffstat; I have to manually remove it before applying