On Sun, 09 Aug 2009 14:19:08 +0300 Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > I have a patch that forwards all multicast packets, and another that does proper forwarding. It should have worked that way in original macvlan, the current behavior is really a bug. > > > Looking in macvlan_set_multicast_list() it acts in a similar manner to > macvlan_set_mac_address() in the sense that it calls dev_mc_sync(). I > assume what's left is to add macvlan_hash_xxx multicast logic to > map/unmap multicast groups to what macvlan devices want to receive them > and this way the flooding can be removed, correct? The device can just flood all multicast packets, since the filtering is done on the receive path anyway. _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
