On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 02:48:23PM +0000, Philip Downey wrote:
> Hi David
> Thanks for taking the time to review and comment.
> This is my first upstream request so please forgive any ignorance on my part.
> I have added a new proposed commit wording below with a view to agreeing
> the content before resubmitting the patch.
> I hope it is sufficient to address your concerns.
>
> IGMP: Inhibit reports for local multicast groups
>
> The range of addresses between 224.0.0.0 and 224.0.0.255
> inclusive, is reserved for the use of routing protocols and other
> low-level topology discovery or maintenance protocols, such as
> gateway discovery and group membership reporting. Multicast
> routers should not forward any multicast datagram with destination
> addresses in this range, regardless of its TTL.
>
> Currently, IGMP reports are generated for this reserved range of
> addresses even though a router will ignore this information since
> it has no purpose.
Hi Philip
What about switches which are doing IGMP snooping?
Andrew
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