netdev - Re: [PATCH] bridge: don't flood multicast packets if no snooping entry

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Date:	Fri, 12 Oct 2012 10:14:00 +0800
From:	Lin Ming <minggr@...il.com>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bridge: don't flood multicast packets if no snooping entry

On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 9:48 AM, Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 09:17:23AM +0800, Lin Ming wrote:
>> From: Lin Ming <mlin@...pku.edu.cn>
>>
>> Currently, multicast packets will be flood even if there is no
>> mutlicast snooping entry attached to port.
>>
>> With IGMP snooping enabled, we should stop sending multicast packets
>> if there is no member joined.
>
> Hmm, the default is deliberately this way so that we don't disrupt
> traffic when we boot up.  If you want to stop flooding unknown groups
> by default you have to make it an option.

Do you mean adding a sysfs entry, for example
/sys/class/net/br0/bridge/multicast_no_flood ?

Thanks.

>
> Cheers,
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