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Herbert Xu bd4265fe36 bridge: Only flood unregistered groups to routers 
The bridge currently floods packets to groups that we have never
seen before to all ports.  This is not required by RFC4541 and
in fact it is not desirable in environment where traffic to
unregistered group is always present.

This patch changes the behaviour so that we only send traffic
to unregistered groups to ports marked as routers.

The user can always force flooding behaviour to any given port
by marking it as a router.

Note that this change does not apply to traffic to 224.0.0.X
as traffic to those groups must always be flooded to all ports.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-06-24 17:52:51 -07:00
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9p Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband 2011-05-26 12:13:57 -07:00
802 snap: remove one synchronize_net() 2011-05-23 16:29:24 -04:00
8021q vlan: don't call ndo_vlan_rx_register on hardware that doesn't have vlan support 2011-06-17 00:12:51 -04:00
appletalk
atm Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2011-05-27 11:16:27 -07:00
ax25
batman-adv Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6 2011-05-20 13:43:21 -07:00
bluetooth Bluetooth: Fix L2CAP connection establishment 2011-06-15 15:03:37 -03:00
bridge bridge: Only flood unregistered groups to routers 2011-06-24 17:52:51 -07:00
caif caif: Bugfix - XOFF removed channel from caif-mux 2011-06-16 23:59:09 -04:00
can can: convert to %pK for kptr_restrict support 2011-05-26 14:23:35 -04:00
ceph ceph: fix sync vs canceled write 2011-06-07 21:34:13 -07:00
core Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6 2011-06-16 10:21:59 -07:00
dcb
dccp
decnet Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6 2011-05-20 13:43:21 -07:00
dns_resolver
dsa
econet
ethernet
ieee802154 ieee802154: Don't leak memory in ieee802154_nl_fill_phy 2011-06-13 18:03:22 -04:00
ipv4 udp/recvmsg: Clear MSG_TRUNC flag when starting over for a new packet 2011-06-21 22:34:27 -07:00
ipv6 udp/recvmsg: Clear MSG_TRUNC flag when starting over for a new packet 2011-06-21 22:34:27 -07:00
ipx
irda irda: iriap: Use seperate lockdep class for irias_objects->hb_spinlock 2011-06-06 17:00:35 -07:00
iucv [S390] irq: merge irq.c and s390_ext.c 2011-05-26 09:48:24 +02:00
key net: convert %p usage to %pK 2011-05-24 01:13:12 -04:00
l2tp fix return values of l2tp_dfs_seq_open() 2011-06-05 14:11:09 -07:00
lapb
llc
mac80211 mac80211: fix IBSS teardown race 2011-06-08 14:19:05 -04:00
netfilter netfilter: fix looped (broad|multi)cast's MAC handling 2011-06-16 17:27:04 +02:00
netlabel Remove prefetch() from <linux/skbuff.h> and "netlabel_addrlist.h" 2011-05-22 21:43:41 -07:00
netlink net: convert %p usage to %pK 2011-05-24 01:13:12 -04:00
netrom
packet af_packet: prevent information leak 2011-06-06 22:42:06 -07:00
phonet net: convert %p usage to %pK 2011-05-24 01:13:12 -04:00
rds RDMA/cma: Pass QP type into rdma_create_id() 2011-05-25 13:46:23 -07:00
rfkill
rose
rxrpc rxrpc: Fix set but unused variable 'usage' in rxrpc_get_transport() 2011-05-19 18:51:50 -04:00
sched net: Rework netdev_drivername() to avoid warning. 2011-06-06 16:41:33 -07:00
sctp sctp: stop pending timers and purge queues when peer restart asoc 2011-05-31 15:29:17 -07:00
sunrpc nfsd: fix dependency of nfsd on auth_rpcgss 2011-06-06 15:07:15 -04:00
tipc
unix net: convert %p usage to %pK 2011-05-24 01:13:12 -04:00
wanrouter
wimax
wireless nl80211: fix overflow in ssid_len 2011-06-07 14:19:07 -04:00
x25
xfrm xfrm: Fix off by one in the replay advance functions 2011-06-07 21:14:39 -07:00
compat.c
Kconfig
Makefile
nonet.c
socket.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6 2011-05-20 13:43:21 -07:00
sysctl_net.c
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