[Bridge] [Patch net] bridge: do not expire mdb entry when bridge still uses it

Cong Wang amwang at redhat.com
Tue Mar 19 01:12:01 UTC 2013


Herbert, ping... :-)

On Mon, 2013-03-11 at 09:44 +0800, Cong Wang wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-03-08 at 19:24 +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 08, 2013 at 03:26:21PM +0800, Cong Wang wrote:
> > >
> > > Hmm, what the user experiences is the multicast traffic between the
> > > bridge and some port is broken. Isn't this expected to work by default?
> > 
> > Oh I'm not arguing that this isn't a bug.  I'm trying to ensure
> > that we come up with the right fix.
> 
> Do you have any idea of a better fix?
> 
> > 
> > > Or we can just change the default value of br->multicast_router to 2?
> > 
> > No because that will cause all sorts of stuff to be thrown at
> > the host.
> > 
> 
> OK.
> 
> Thanks!





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