[Bridge] [PATCH net-next] bridge: multicast to unicast

Johannes Berg johannes at sipsolutions.net
Mon Jan 9 12:44:03 UTC 2017


> >          A host SHOULD silently discard a datagram that is received via
> >          a link-layer broadcast (see Section 2.4) but does not specify
> >          an IP multicast or broadcast destination address.
> 
> This example is the other way round. It specifies how the IP
> destination should look like in case of link-layer broadcast. Not
> how the link-layer destination should look like in case of a
> multicast/broadcast IP destination.

You stopped reading too early - snipped the context part for you :)

johannes


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