netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] bridge: multicast to unicast

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Date:   Mon, 09 Jan 2017 16:47:01 +0100
From:   Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:     michael-dev <michael-dev@...i-braun.de>
Cc:     Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@...3.blue>,
        Felix Fietkau <nbd@....name>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
        bridge@...ts.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] bridge: multicast to unicast

On Mon, 2017-01-09 at 16:25 +0100, michael-dev wrote:
> Am 09.01.2017 13:15, schrieb Johannes Berg:
> > > That is bridge fdb entries (need to) expire so the bridge might
> > > "forget" a still-connected station not sending but only consuming
> > > broadcast traffic.
> > 
> > Ok, that I don't know. Somehow if you address a unicast packet
> > there
> > the bridge has to make a decision - so it really should know?
> 
> If the bridge has not learned the unicast destination mac address on
> any port, it will flood the packet on all ports except the port it
> received the packet on.

Ok, so this really needs to be done in mac80211.

I'll send out the pull request soon then.

johannes