Re: [PATCH] net: bridge: Allow bridge to joing multicast groups

Hi Horatiu, On Thu, 25 Jul 2019 13:44:04 +0200, Horatiu Vultur wrote: > There is no way to configure the bridge, to receive only specific link > layer multicast addresses. From the description of the command 'bridge > fdb append' is supposed to do that, but there was no way to notify the >

Re: [PATCH] net: bridge: Allow bridge to joing multicast groups

> > 2) The interface is part of a bridge. There are a few sub-cases > > > > a) IGMP snooping is being performed. We can block multicast where > > there is no interest in the group. But this is limited to IP > > multicast. > Agree. And this is done today by installing an explicit offload rule to

Re: [PATCH] net: bridge: Allow bridge to joing multicast groups

> Trying to get back to the original problem: > > We have a network which implements the ODVA/DLR ring protocol. This protocol > sends out a beacon frame as often as every 3 us (as far as I recall, default I > believe is 400 us) to this MAC address: 01:21:6C:00:00:01. > > Try take a quick look

Re: [PATCH] net: bridge: Allow bridge to joing multicast groups

On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 02:02:15PM +0200, Horatiu Vultur wrote: > Hi Nikolay, > > The 07/26/2019 12:26, Nikolay Aleksandrov wrote: > > External E-Mail > > > > > > On 26/07/2019 11:41, Nikolay Aleksandrov wrote: > > > On 25/07/2019 17:21, Horatiu Vultur wrote: > > >> Hi Nikolay, > > >> > > >>