netdev - RE: [PATCH] [AF_PACKET]: Allow multicast traffic to be caught by ORIGDEV when bonded

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Date:	Wed, 7 Nov 2007 09:40:28 -0800
From:	"Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P" <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@...el.com>
To:	"David Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] [AF_PACKET]: Allow multicast traffic to be caught by ORIGDEV when bonded

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Miller [mailto:davem@...emloft.net] 
> Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 3:52 AM
> To: Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P
> Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] [AF_PACKET]: Allow multicast traffic to 
> be caught by ORIGDEV when bonded
> 
> From: "Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P" <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@...el.com>
> Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 03:00:42 -0800
> 
> > In any event, the only thing this could affect is if the 
> option is set 
> > on the socket, which shouldn't be very often at all.
> 
> Any idea how many programs set this option and which ones?  
> You obviously noticed, so perhaps you know at least one or 
> was this discovered purely by code inspection?

We have an application that communicates with a switch and a NIC that
helps some additional configuration for the network (think of it as an
extended link negotiation).  It uses LLDP, which is layer 2 and is
multicast.  We noticed that when testing bonding, it didn't work.  I'm
not sure who else might be using this code right now, since it went into
the mainstream kernel in 2.6.22.

Thanks,
-PJ
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