netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] ipv6 mcast: Do not join device multicast for interface-local multicasts.

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Message-ID: <20130210125119.GC18219@order.stressinduktion.org>
Date:	Sun, 10 Feb 2013 13:51:19 +0100
From:	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
To:	YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>
Cc:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] ipv6 mcast: Do not join device multicast for interface-local multicasts.

On Sat, Feb 09, 2013 at 11:29:58PM +0900, YOSHIFUJI Hideaki wrote:
> RFC4291 (IPv6 addressing architecture) says that interface-Local scope
> spans only a single interface on a node.  We should not join L2 device
> multicast list for addresses in interface-local (or smaller) scope.
> 
> Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>

Had this patch in my tree while testing and it is definitely the right thing
to do:

Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>

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