From: Linus Lüssing Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2014 16:47:52 +0000 (+0100) Subject: batman-adv: Modified forwarding behaviour for multicast packets X-Git-Tag: v3.15-rc1~113^2~107^2~5 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1d8ab8d3c176d31530b3ffd4547cf731018e2a45;p=pandora-kernel.git batman-adv: Modified forwarding behaviour for multicast packets With this patch a multicast packet is not always simply flooded anymore, the behaviour for the following cases is changed to reduce unnecessary overhead: If all nodes within the horizon of a certain node have signalized multicast listener announcement capability then an IPv6 multicast packet with a destination of IPv6 link-local scope (excluding ff02::1) coming from the upstream of this node... * ...is dropped if there is no according multicast listener in the translation table, * ...is forwarded via unicast if there is a single node with interested multicast listeners * ...and otherwise still gets flooded. Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli --- Reading git-diff-tree failed