From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Herbert Xu Subject: Re: restoring IP multicast addresses when restarting the interface. Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 22:14:25 +1000 Message-ID: <20120423121425.GA29883@gondor.apana.org.au> References: <20120420212533.78903e3a@asterix.rh> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: netdev To: Flavio Leitner Return-path: Received: from sting.hengli.com.au ([178.18.18.71]:37906 "EHLO fornost.hengli.com.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753415Ab2DWMO2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Apr 2012 08:14:28 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120420212533.78903e3a@asterix.rh> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 09:25:33PM -0300, Flavio Leitner wrote: > > Although the new behavior seems nice and save some user space > work, I think it was unintentional and likely to be a bug. > > What you guys think? Are you talking about multicast subscriptions on the interface? I don't see why they should disappear when the interface goes down and then comes back up since these ultimately come from application sockets which continue to exist after a down/up. Cheers, -- Email: Herbert Xu Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt