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

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0904161508520.15835@qirst.com>
Date:	Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:12:43 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
To:	Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>
cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	vladislav.yasevich@...com, dlstevens@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: PATCH: Multicast: Filter multicast traffic per socket mc_list

On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, Neil Horman wrote:

> I'm sorry, I misread it (confused the definiton of a bitfield with its default
> value.  As Dave noted, the default needs to be the current behavior, not your
> new behavior.  Until thats changed, I rescind my Ack

Well guess then we need the global proc setting after all. With the
current misbehavior as a default applications need to be rebuilt and
source code that is running on multiple OSes now would have to customized
to special case for Linux.

So add a global proc setting to determine the initial setting of IP_MULTICAST_ALL?

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