Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 19 Mar 2012 18:06:27 -0400 (EDT) | | Subject | Re: [PATCH net V4] bonding: send igmp report for its master | | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Weiping Pan <panweiping3@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 11:23:27 +0800
> Liang Zheng(lzheng@redhat.com) found that in the following topo, > bonding does not send igmp report when we trigger a fail-over of bonding. > > eth0-- > |-- bond0 -- br0 > eth1-- > > modprobe bonding mode=1 miimon=100 resend_igmp=10 > ifconfig bond0 up > ifenslave bond0 eth0 eth1 > > brctl addbr br0 > ifconfig br0 192.168.100.2/24 up > brctl addif br0 bond0 > > Add 192.168.100.2(br0) into a multicast group, like 224.10.10.10, > then trigger a fali-over in bonding. > You can see that parameter "resend_igmp" does not work. > > The reason is that when we add br0 into a multicast group, > it does not propagate multicast knowledge down to its ports. > > If we choose to propagate multicast knowledge down to all ports for bridge, > then we have to track every change that is done to bridge, and keep a backup > for all ports. It is hard to track, I think. > > Instead I choose to modify bonding to send igmp report for its master. > > Changelog: > V2: correct comments > V3: move this check into bond_resend_igmp_join_requests() > V4: only send igmp reports if bond is enslaved to a bridge > > Signed-off-by: Weiping Pan <panweiping3@gmail.com>
Applied.
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