Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Feb 2011 10:08:23 -0800 (PST) | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2] bridge: Use IPv6 link-local address for multicast listener queries | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@web.de> Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 19:17:52 +0100
> Currently the bridge multicast snooping feature periodically issues > IPv6 general multicast listener queries to sense the absence of a > listener. > > For this, it uses :: as its source address - however RFC 2710 requires: > "To be valid, the Query message MUST come from a link-local IPv6 Source > Address". Current Linux kernel versions seem to follow this requirement > and ignore our bogus MLD queries. > > With this commit a link local address from the bridge interface is being > used to issue the MLD query, resulting in other Linux devices which are > multicast listeners in the network to respond with a MLD response (which > was not the case before). > > Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@web.de>
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