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From: Yan Wang <gg_wangyan@hotmail.com>
To: bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net
Subject: Re: [Bloat] Fwd: bridge should flood non-IPv4-multicast ethernet frames
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 20:38:53 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <loom.20120209T210111-420@post.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAA93jw5q-UET1NH3Cu15UbH6T_kqNCUdW_-yzYqPPu5nre+xTA@mail.gmail.com>

Dave Taht <dave.taht@...> writes:


> 2. Check that the Ethertype is 0x800 (IPv4), and if it is not, always
> flood the frame so we don't break non-IPv6-multicast frames being
> bridged.
> 
> 3. Do both of the above, the key point being that IPv6 multicast
> frames (33:33:xx:xx:xx:xx), along with any other ethernet multicast
> frames that aren't supported by the current bridge snooping code,
> should always be flooded unconditionally.  IS-IS for example uses
> 01:80:C2:00:00:14 and 01:80:C2:00:00:15.


Hi,

I applied your patch to kernel 3.2.0.

The test result indicated that bridge didn't flood IPv6-multicast ethernet 
frames.
I set up 2 UML, they can communicated via host bridge.
I appiled the patch in the host.
But I still can't see IPv6 multicast package coming from other UML.


Thanks,
Yan






      reply	other threads:[~2012-02-09 20:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2011-09-13 21:51 ` Dave Taht
2012-02-09 20:38   ` Yan Wang [this message]

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