From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: herbert@gondor.hengli.com.au
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [0/3] bridge: Do not send multicast queries by default
Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2012 12:50:23 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120415.125023.1717763086421927975.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120415111300.GA14147@gondor.apana.org.au>
From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.hengli.com.au>
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. :-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-15 16:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-13 12:36 [0/3] bridge: Do not send multicast queries by default Herbert Xu
2012-04-13 12:37 ` [PATCH 1/3] bridge: Add br_multicast_start_querier Herbert Xu
2012-04-13 12:37 ` [PATCH 3/3] bridge: Add multicast_querier toggle and disable queries by default Herbert Xu
2012-04-13 12:37 ` [PATCH 2/3] bridge: Restart queries when last querier expires Herbert Xu
2012-04-13 14:53 ` [0/3] bridge: Do not send multicast queries by default David Miller
2012-04-15 11:13 ` Herbert Xu
2012-04-15 16:50 ` David Miller [this message]
2013-04-03 15:28 ` Linus Lüssing
2012-04-15 16:52 ` David Miller
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