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author | Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@web.de> | 2014-02-15 16:47:52 (GMT) |
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committer | Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com> | 2014-03-22 08:18:57 (GMT) |
commit | 1d8ab8d3c176d31530b3ffd4547cf731018e2a45 (patch) | |
tree | b62208972cdfb70a853ff5177c29154fd165bea7 /net/batman-adv/main.h | |
parent | 60432d756cf06e597ef9da511402dd059b112447 (diff) | |
download | linux-1d8ab8d3c176d31530b3ffd4547cf731018e2a45.tar.xz |
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 <linus.luessing@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
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