Re: [PATCH] net: bridge: suppress broadcast when multicast flood is disabled

2017-04-25 Thread Nikolay Aleksandrov
On 25/04/17 16:32, Mike Manning wrote: > On 24/04/17 20:52, Nikolay Aleksandrov wrote: >> On 24/04/17 17:09, Mike Manning wrote: >>> Flood suppression for packets that are not unicast needs to be handled >>> consistently by also not flooding broadcast packets. As broadcast is a >>> special case of

Re: [PATCH] net: bridge: suppress broadcast when multicast flood is disabled

2017-04-25 Thread Mike Manning
On 24/04/17 20:52, Nikolay Aleksandrov wrote: > On 24/04/17 17:09, Mike Manning wrote: >> Flood suppression for packets that are not unicast needs to be handled >> consistently by also not flooding broadcast packets. As broadcast is a >> special case of multicast, the same kernel parameter should

Re: [PATCH] net: bridge: suppress broadcast when multicast flood is disabled

2017-04-24 Thread Nikolay Aleksandrov
On 24/04/17 17:09, Mike Manning wrote: > Flood suppression for packets that are not unicast needs to be handled > consistently by also not flooding broadcast packets. As broadcast is a > special case of multicast, the same kernel parameter should be used to > suppress flooding for both of these

Re: [PATCH] net: bridge: suppress broadcast when multicast flood is disabled

2017-04-24 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Mon, 24 Apr 2017 15:09:04 +0100 Mike Manning wrote: > Flood suppression for packets that are not unicast needs to be handled > consistently by also not flooding broadcast packets. As broadcast is a > special case of multicast, the same kernel parameter should be used to

[PATCH] net: bridge: suppress broadcast when multicast flood is disabled

2017-04-24 Thread Mike Manning
Flood suppression for packets that are not unicast needs to be handled consistently by also not flooding broadcast packets. As broadcast is a special case of multicast, the same kernel parameter should be used to suppress flooding for both of these packet types. Fixes: b6cb5ac8331b ("net: bridge: