netdev - Re: [PATCH] Multicast packet reassembly can fail

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Message-Id: <1257186973.3153.564.camel@linux-1lbu>
Date:	Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:36:12 -0600
From:	Steve Chen <schen@...sta.com>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:	rick.jones2@...com, mhuth@...sta.com,
	David Stevens <dlstevens@...ibm.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Multicast packet reassembly can fail

On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 14:04 -0400, Herbert Xu wrote:
> Steve Chen <schen@...sta.com> wrote:
> >
> > of the interface that the application is expecting the packet.  It
> > appears to bind on interface based on that casual observation.  I'll
> > have to study the code in detail to be able to say for sure.
> 
> Well if it does bind to the interface then that explains the
> failure. And the fix is "if it hurts, don't do it" :)
> 
> Cheers,

The packet drop was tracked to rp_filter.  All packets received as
expected after disabling rp_filter.  Thank you all for the inputs.

Regards,

Steve

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