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SubjectRe: [patch 2.6.14-rc2] bonding: replicate IGMP traffic in activebackup mode
John W. Linville wrote:
> Replicate IGMP frames across all slaves in activebackup mode. This
> ensures fail-over is rapid for multicast traffic as well. Otherwise,
> multicast traffic will be lost until the next IGMP membership report
> poll timeout.
>
> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
> ---
> This is conceptually similar to the treatment of IGMP traffic in
> bond_alb_xmit. In that case, IGMP traffic transmitted on any slave
> is re-routed to the active slave in order to ensure that multicast
> traffic continues to be directed to the active receiver.
>
> drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c | 53 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
> 1 files changed, 51 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Applied. For future patches, please

* don't include description following the signed-off-by line

* if you are willing to special-case me, I actually don't like seeing a
diffstat; I have to manually remove it before applying


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