From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Roland Dreier Subject: Re: When IBoE will be merged to upstream? Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 10:21:14 -0700 Message-ID: References: <4C32D0BD.3030902@Voltaire.com> <4C3417FA.7000600@Voltaire.com> <20100711043449.GA31404@obsidianresearch.com> <20100713193828.GB12614@obsidianresearch.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: In-Reply-To: (Liran Liss's message of "Thu, 15 Jul 2010 14:14:16 +0300") Sender: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Liran Liss Cc: Jason Gunthorpe , Or Gerlitz , "Hefty, Sean" , Aleksey Senin , linux-rdma , "monis@voltaire.com" , "alekseys@voltaire.com" , "yiftahs@voltaire.com" , Tziporet Koren , "alexr@voltaire.com" List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org > > I agree -- the current spec is rather broken for multicast. > > Choosing a different ethertype and then saying that all > > switches will just flood multicast traffic is half-baked at best. > It is a realistic approach. Do you claim that there are switches that will not forward the packets? No, I think all switches will flood unknown multicast packets. But there is a reason that IGMP snooping was invented -- it is inefficient (to say the least) to flood all multicast traffic. - R. -- Roland Dreier || For corporate legal information go to: http://www.cisco.com/web/about/doing_business/legal/cri/index.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html