[Bridge] [PATCH] bridge: keep track of received multicast packets

Stephen Hemminger shemminger at osdl.org
Thu May 4 16:10:19 PDT 2006


It makes sense to add this simple statistic to keep track of received
multicast packets.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger at osdl.org>

--- bridge.orig/net/bridge/br_input.c	2006-04-21 14:28:55.000000000 -0700
+++ bridge/net/bridge/br_input.c	2006-05-04 16:07:24.000000000 -0700
@@ -66,6 +66,7 @@
 	}
 
 	if (is_multicast_ether_addr(dest)) {
+		br->statistics.multicast++;
 		br_flood_forward(br, skb, !passedup);
 		if (!passedup)
 			br_pass_frame_up(br, skb);



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