netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/3] bonding: fix to rejoin multicast groups immediately

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Message-Id: <20101005.202853.39191290.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 05 Oct 2010 20:28:53 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	fleitner@...hat.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, bonding-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	fubar@...ibm.com, andy@...yhouse.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] bonding: fix to rejoin multicast groups immediately

From: Flavio Leitner <fleitner@...hat.com>
Date: Tue,  5 Oct 2010 21:23:58 -0300

> The IGMP specs states that if the system receives a
> membership report, it shouldn't send another for the
> next minute. However, if a link failure happens right
> after that, the backup slave and the switch connected
> to this slave will not know about the multicast and
> the traffic will hang for about a minute.
> 
> This patch fixes it to rejoin multicast groups immediately
> after a failover restoring the multicast traffic.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Flavio Leitner <fleitner@...hat.com>

Much better commit message :-)

Applied to net-next-2.6
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