Re: [PATCH] bridge: prevent flooding IPv6 packets that do not have a listener

2013-07-22 Thread Linus Lüssing
Hi Herbert, Were there any reasons I might not be aware of which prevented you from adding the same change you introduced in "bridge: Only flood unregistered groups to routers" for IPv6, too? If not and if no one else comes up with any objection, then I'd still be happy if this patch could find

Re: [PATCH] bridge: prevent flooding IPv6 packets that do not have a listener

2013-07-22 Thread Linus Lüssing
Hi Herbert, Were there any reasons I might not be aware of which prevented you from adding the same change you introduced in bridge: Only flood unregistered groups to routers for IPv6, too? If not and if no one else comes up with any objection, then I'd still be happy if this patch could find

[PATCH] bridge: prevent flooding IPv6 packets that do not have a listener

2013-06-21 Thread Linus Lüssing
Currently if there is no listener for a certain group then IPv6 packets for that group are flooded on all ports, even though there might be no host and router interested in it on a port. With this commit they are only forwarded to ports with a multicast router. Just like commit bd4265fe36

[PATCH] bridge: prevent flooding IPv6 packets that do not have a listener

2013-06-21 Thread Linus Lüssing
Currently if there is no listener for a certain group then IPv6 packets for that group are flooded on all ports, even though there might be no host and router interested in it on a port. With this commit they are only forwarded to ports with a multicast router. Just like commit bd4265fe36