netdev - Re: [Bridge] Bug#625914: linux-image-2.6.38-2-amd64: bridging is not interacting well with multicast in 2.6.38-4

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Date:	Fri, 13 May 2011 11:03:26 -0700
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Noah Meyerhans <noahm@...ian.org>
Cc:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>, 625914@...s.debian.org,
	bridge@...ts.linux-foundation.org, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Bridge] Bug#625914: linux-image-2.6.38-2-amd64: bridging is
 not interacting well with multicast in 2.6.38-4

On Tue, 10 May 2011 16:35:40 -0700
Noah Meyerhans <noahm@...ian.org> wrote:

> On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 03:11:00PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > There were two more follow on commits in stable related to this.
> > I recommend merging 2.6.38.6 which includes these.
> 
> The problem still exists in the current 2.6.38.6.  Backing out 5f1c356a
> still solves the problem there.
> 
> I have not yet tried anything outside the stable-2.6.38.y tree, but it
> seems like these same changes are present there, and it's unlikely that
> other releases will work any better.
> 
> noah
> 

Is this unique to the tap interfaces or does bridging multicast
not work for all devices?


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