netdev - Re: restoring IP multicast addresses when restarting the interface.

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Date:	Mon, 23 Apr 2012 22:14:25 +1000
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Flavio Leitner <fbl@...hat.com>
Cc:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: restoring IP multicast addresses when restarting the interface.

On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 09:25:33PM -0300, Flavio Leitner wrote:
>
> Although the new behavior seems nice and save some user space
> work, I think it was unintentional and likely to be a bug.
> 
> What you guys think?

Are you talking about multicast subscriptions on the interface?

I don't see why they should disappear when the interface goes
down and then comes back up since these ultimately come from
application sockets which continue to exist after a down/up.

Cheers,
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