From: Brian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com>
To: Ian Brown <ianbrn@gmail.com>
Cc: "YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明" <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Why MLDv2 Report packet is freed ?
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:02:59 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48063F53.4030102@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d0383f90804160450x31e1577en60d4a6cca29a00ca@mail.gmail.com>
Ian Brown wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am sorry, I tried to delve into the code and I not sure I can figure out this
> point.
>> MLD packets are handled in other place.
>
> Can anybody please try to elaborate on this point: how
> are MLD packets handled ? Shouldn't MLD packets be
> handled by pim6sd daemon?
Yes.
> I see handlers for accepting MLD (v1 and v2)
> in pim6sd daemon;
> And in case MLD packets should be handled by pim6sd - shouldn't the kernel
> pass these MLD packets to the pim6sd daemon (by calling sock_queue_rcv_skb()
> in ip6mr.c) ? As far as I can understand, these MLD packets are
> dropped in icmpv6_rcv()
>From what I can tell, ip6_mc_input() makes a copy if multicast routing
is enabled. Those copies eventually get to ip6mr_cache_report() which
delivers them to user-space (there's even a reference to pim6sd in
net/ipv6/ip6mr.c).
Have you seen them not get delivered?
-Brian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-16 18:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-15 13:23 Why MLDv2 Report packet is freed ? Ian Brown
2008-04-15 14:48 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2008-04-16 11:50 ` Ian Brown
2008-04-16 18:02 ` Brian Haley [this message]
2008-04-17 5:49 ` Ian Brown
2008-04-17 10:11 ` Rami Rosen
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