On 2014-09-10 05:41, Linus Lüssing wrote: > Hi Felix, > > Matthias just told me about the work you have done on the bridge > code which can be found as 645-bridge_multicast_to_unicast.patch > in the OpenWRT repositord. > > I really like the idea of unicasting multicast packets to STAs. > Especially as that would fit nicely with the work done on > batman-adv and multicast :P. Great, now that it has received some test coverage, I'm considering sending it upstream soon (after your comments below have been addressed of course).
> Currently, I think I'm seeing a conceptual issue with this > specific implementation though, leading to multicast packet > loss: It seems to me that IGMPv2/MLDv1 report suppression (as well > as IGMPv3/MLDv2 report suppresion in the presence of IGMPv2/MLDv1 > listeners/reports) was not considered. Could you please give me some details on that? I don't understand how this relates to my multicast->unicast translation implementation or how it can cause multicast packet loss. - Felix _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
