[Bridge] [PATCH 1/2] bridge: Fix MLD queries' ethernet source address

David Miller davem at davemloft.net
Tue Feb 22 10:08:17 PST 2011


From: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing at web.de>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 19:17:51 +0100

> Map the IPv6 header's destination multicast address to an ethernet
> source address instead of the MLD queries multicast address.
> 
> For instance for a general MLD query (multicast address in the MLD query
> set to ::), this would wrongly be mapped to 33:33:00:00:00:00, although
> an MLD queries destination MAC should always be 33:33:00:00:00:01 which
> matches the IPv6 header's multicast destination ff02::1.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing at web.de>

Applied.


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