ipv4: New multicast-all socket option
authorNivedita Singhvi <niv@us.ibm.com>
Thu, 28 May 2009 07:00:46 +0000 (07:00 +0000)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Tue, 2 Jun 2009 07:45:24 +0000 (00:45 -0700)
After some discussion offline with Christoph Lameter and David Stevens
regarding multicast behaviour in Linux, I'm submitting a slightly
modified patch from the one Christoph submitted earlier.

This patch provides a new socket option IP_MULTICAST_ALL.

In this case, default behaviour is _unchanged_ from the current
Linux standard. The socket option is set by default to provide
original behaviour. Sockets wishing to receive data only from
multicast groups they join explicitly will need to clear this
socket option.

Signed-off-by: Nivedita Singhvi <niv@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter<cl@linux.com>
Acked-by: David Stevens <dlstevens@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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