netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] bridge: multicast to unicast

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Message-ID: <20170110041816.GJ5513@otheros>
Date:   Tue, 10 Jan 2017 05:18:16 +0100
From:   Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@...3.blue>
To:     Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
Cc:     "M. Braun" <michael-dev@...i-braun.de>,
        Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
        Felix Fietkau <nbd@....name>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        bridge@...ts.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] bridge: multicast to unicast

On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 01:30:32PM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> I wonder if MAC80211 should be doing IGMP snooping and not bridge
> in this environment.

In the long term, yes. For now, not quite sure.

I personally like to go for simple solutions first :).