netdev - Re: [PATCH 3/3] bonding: Improve IGMP join processing

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Date:	Thu, 01 Mar 2007 14:25:19 -0500
From:	Brian Haley <brian.haley@...com>
To:	Jay Vosburgh <fubar@...ibm.com>
Cc:	Andy Gospodarek <andy@...yhouse.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	bonding-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...ox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] bonding: Improve IGMP join processing

Jay Vosburgh wrote:
>> My only concern is that this code assumes all mcast addresses stored in
>> dev->mc-list list are for ipv4 igmp mcast addresses and nothing was done
>> for ipv6.
>>
>> But this is much better than what we have now, so... 
> 
> 	Agreed, but there's no IPv6 support anywhere in bonding at
> present (for unicast or multicast), so this isn't really a loss.

So forgive my naive question, but what would it take to make IPv6 work? 
  I know DAD fails on a test setup I have, but I haven't dug-into why 
this is (I can guess), and I'd like to see it working.  I'm willing to 
help, even if just to get it limping along.

-Brian
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