Re: Multicast snooping fixes and suggestions

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 00:19:16 +0100
Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@xxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
> 
> While testing the (very awesome!) bridge igmp/mld snooping support I came across
> two issues which are breaking IPv6 multicast snooping and IPv6
> non-link-local multicast on bridges with multicast snooping support enabled
> in general. The first two patches shall fix these issues.
> 
> The third one addresses a potential bug on little endian machines which I noticed
> during this little code reviewing. This patch is untested though, feedback welcome.
> 
> The fourth and fifth patch are a suggestion to also permit using the bridge multicast
> snooping feature for link local multimedia multicast traffic. Therefore
> using the transient multicast flag instead of the non-link-local scope criteria
> seems to be a suitable solution at least for IPv6, in my opinion. Let me know what
> you think about it.
> 
> Thanks for reviewing these patches.
> 
> Cheers,
> Linus

These look correct. Did you test them with real traffic?
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