netdev - Re: PATCH: Multicast: Filter multicast traffic per socket mc

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Date:	Fri, 17 Apr 2009 09:28:25 -0700
From:	Nivedita Singhvi <niv@...ibm.com>
To:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
CC:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, nhorman@...driver.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, vladislav.yasevich@...com,
	dlstevens@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: PATCH: Multicast: Filter multicast traffic per socket mc_list

Christoph Lameter wrote:

>> Ideally, you could tweak OS environment configuration
>> setting, if you don't want per socket. But it cannot
>> be the default.
> 
> Would you support an additional OS config variable that would set the
> default for socket operations? Then we could have a per socket option that
> would allow overriding the OS config variable?

That would be my choice personally, because it would be
easier than scripting some solution to modify potentially
hundreds of sockets on a system...

Does that sound acceptable?

thanks,
Nivedita
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