Re: Avoiding bridge flood of multicast when L2 switch is used

2016-06-14 Thread Andrew Lunn
> netdev experts, > > When there is a L2 switch underneath the network interface a flooding of > multicast at the bridge interface results in one copy of this going through > each > of the slave resulting in multiple multicast packets reaching the underlying > switch. Yes, this is something

Avoiding bridge flood of multicast when L2 switch is used

2016-06-14 Thread Murali Karicheri
netdev experts, When there is a L2 switch underneath the network interface a flooding of multicast at the bridge interface results in one copy of this going through each of the slave resulting in multiple multicast packets reaching the underlying switch. L2 switch also duplicates the multicast