[Make-wifi-fast] Fwd: [PATCH net-next] bridge: multicast to unicast

Noah Causin n0manletter at gmail.com
Wed Jan 4 17:16:45 EST 2017


I haven't been able to find a way to manipulate the bridge flag using a 
software utility.

Maybe changing this variable could work.

/sys/class/net/br-lan/lower_wlan0/brport/multicast_to_unicast


On 1/4/2017 4:51 PM, Dave Taht wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 1:43 PM, Noah Causin <n0manletter at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I asked Felix about this, and he said that as long as the AP Interface is
>> connected to a bridge, multicast to unicast conversion is available.
>>
>> The patch notes said that it has been enabled by default in LEDE and OpenWRT
>> for about a year.
> Well, babeld is breaking on bridges at the moment, this might be why.
> Is there a way to turn it off?
>
>> On 1/3/2017 1:14 PM, Noah Causin wrote:
>>
>> I wonder if this means just adding a WiFi interface to a bridge enables this
>> functionality.
>>
>>
>> On 1/2/2017 3:42 PM, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote:
>>
>> Seems LEDE has had multicast suppression for a while? :)
>>
>> -Toke
>>
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