This series does some preparation and introduces UDP replicast. A concept
where we emulate multicast by sending multiple unicast messages to
configured peers. This is required for TIPC to work in environments where
IP multicast is disabled.

There is a corresponding patch series for the tipc user space tool that
allows a user to add remote addresses to the replicast list.

Richard Alpe (7):
  tipc: split UDP nl address parsing
  tipc: split UDP send function
  tipc: refactor multicast ip check
  tipc: introduce UDP replicast
  tipc: add replicast peer discovery
  tipc: add the ability to get UDP options via netlink
  tipc: add UDP remoteip dump to netlink API

 include/uapi/linux/tipc_netlink.h |   3 +
 net/tipc/bearer.c                 |  52 ++++
 net/tipc/bearer.h                 |   1 +
 net/tipc/netlink.c                |  15 +-
 net/tipc/udp_media.c              | 520 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
 net/tipc/udp_media.h              |  46 ++++
 6 files changed, 545 insertions(+), 92 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 net/tipc/udp_media.h

-- 
2.1.4


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