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Bug 587714 - [RFE] Add MLDv1 / MLDv2 snooping to bridge [NEEDINFO]
[RFE] Add MLDv1 / MLDv2 snooping to bridge
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: kernel (Show other bugs)
6.0
All Linux
medium Severity medium
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Assigned To: Herbert Xu
Jianlin Shi
Jana Heves
: FutureFeature
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Blocks: 767187 838117 846704 1270638 1274135 1359574 1366045
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Reported: 2010-04-30 12:31 EDT by Subhendu Ghosh
Modified: 2016-10-04 00:32 EDT (History)
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MLDv1 and MLDv2 snooping added to bridge With this update, the bridge module adds support to IPv6 multicast by snooping for MLDv1 and MLDv2. Now, IPv6 multicast messages are sent only to ports with subscribed multicast receivers.
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Last Closed: 2016-08-25 09:54:49 EDT
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Description Subhendu Ghosh 2010-04-30 12:31:14 EDT 
Description of problem:

The bridge module recently added support for IPv4 multicast by adding support for IGMP snooping. This request is to extend that support to IPv6 multicast by snooping for MLDv1 and MLDv2 

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Actual results:

IPv6 mulicast message are broadcast on all ports

Expected results:

IPv6 multicast messages are only sent to ports with multicast receivers.

Additional info:

May require additional support in bridge-utils
Comment 9 Herbert Xu 2015-12-15 03:55:44 EST 
Subhendu, it looks like RHEL6 already has the MLD snooping support courtesy of https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=716263

Can you please verify that this fulfills your needs? Thanks!
Comment 10 Linda Wang 2016-08-25 09:54:49 EDT 
See comment#9. The feature seems to be already in
RHEL6; therefore, close as CURRENTRELEASE.

Thanks!
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